Sociocultural
Copel has generation and transmission assets in different locations in Brazil, for which it pays special attention to the socioeconomic and cultural components of the region.
In the implementation and operation phases of the undertakings, the negative impacts of the installations are duly identified and evaluated during the phase of prior socioenvironmental studies, in order to be controlled, mitigated and/or compensated in the subsequent phases, with a view to obtaining environmental licensing.
For this reason, studies are developed on the populations potentially affected by the Company’s facilities and public hearings are held, as well as environmental education programs; social communication; archeology; rescue of tumbled assets, valued and registered; heritage education; support to municipalities and the monitoring and promotion of economic activities that may suffer some kind of alteration as a result of Copel’s undertakings.
The Company also develops engagement actions with the local community and social responsibility projects.
Cultural Heritage
According to article 216 of the Federal Constitution, Cultural Heritage comprises a broad set of references produced by society. All forms of expression, such as ways of creating, doing and living, as well as scientific, artistic and technological creations, works, objects, documents, buildings and other spaces intended for artistic and cultural manifestations and, also, urban complexes and sites of historical, scenic, artistic, archaeological, paleontological, ecological and scientific value, which refer to Brazilian society, constitute the so-called Cultural Heritage.
Corporate Memory
Copel is concerned in keeping the history of energy and the legacy of the Company’s knowledge, as well as transmitting this memory to future generations, preserving the history of the Company and of the electric power industry, as well as the facts and collections of regions impacted by implementation of its projects.
Traditional Communities
To meet the demand for energy by indigenous communities located in environmental conservation units or other areas where it is not feasible to install the distribution network, Copel develops projects for new energy connections, with the installation of photovoltaic panels, guidance on the efficient use of electricity, and also the enrollment of indigenous communities in the Social Tariff for Electrical Energy.
