Title :
Social Responsibility of the Transmission and Distribution Business
Author :
de Oliveira, M.F. ; dos Santos, S.M. ; Bernardo, L.A.M.
Author_Institution :
LabPlan, UFSC, Florianopolis
Abstract :
The social value of electricity has increased in modern life, which is extremely energy-dependent to satisfy the human needs. Thus, the electric sector has a natural concern to join business and social claims. Such matter incited utilities to develop social projects in order to raise social welfare of the population living around their production areas. The electric production companies are also able to finance projects and to ensure voluntary labor. These projects are based on sustainable development assumption, in view of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Tn developing countries, utilities are playing an important role in the social development issue
Keywords :
corporate social responsibility; power markets; social sciences; CSR; corporate social responsibility; distribution business; electric production companies; social development issue; social responsibility; social welfare; sustainable development assumption; transmission business; utilities; Business; Companies; Finance; Fuel economy; Government; Humans; Power generation economics; Privatization; Production; Sustainable development; Electricity markets; social development and corporate social responsibility;
Conference_Titel :
Transmission & Distribution Conference and Exposition: Latin America, 2006. TDC '06. IEEE/PES
Conference_Location :
Caracas
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0287-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0288-3
DOI :
10.1109/TDCLA.2006.311449