AES Eletropaulo Research Articles

The reconstruction of leader’s career after the change of the corporate control: A case study in São Paulo electricity sector

This research investigates how a company changes after the privatization process and how this change impacts its total structure. For Donadone and Sznelwar (2004), the pressures of new business owners, in this case coming out of the hands of the state to the hands of private companies, have a consequence of organizational design and the composition of power in companies. Therefore, this research focused on an exploratory study at AES Eletropaulo. This study has a central role in the Brazilian electricity sector because due to the radical changes it has been subjected since 90’s financialization. However, no research on careers construction of leaders in the Brazilian context had been made so far. As a research procedure this study combined quantitative and qualitative methods in order to analyze the careers of leaders of AES Eletropaulo, we collected the curriculum of the Board and Directors, since its emergence as a state enterprise in 1979 to the year of 2012. These curriculums were analysed with a Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA). In addition, this research was complemented with an interview with the former president of the company where the study was performed. As a result, we were able to observe the several changes that AES Eletropaulo went through, especially that, the leaders of this company had to find ways to rebuild their careers according to the new logic of the moment, which would have been facing financially. The capacity for reconversion is very large in these companies that the engineers end up reconverting their careers, these workers update themselves through courses and degrees, acquire new skills in the human, administrative and social areas, to become more flexible in a first moment of organizational change and reconvert themselves into engineers who work in financial areas, so they can stay in their elite positions. All this is marked and explained by the preference of hiring of engineers in the large Brazilian companies for high ranking positions.

Dashboard and smartphone application to support operation and planning of electric distribution systems

This study aims to describe a dashboard that presents relevant information to the operation, maintenance and planning of subtransmission systems, underground distribution systems and aerial distribution systems, developed as part of the ‘Smart Grid Project’ of Brazilian utility AES Eletropaulo. In addition, it was developed an application for smartphones containing information that were considered important to be viewed remotely by operators and field teams.

A mudança da carreira dos dirigentes após o processo de privatização: estudo de caso no setor elétrico paulista

Esta pesquisa investiga como uma companhia muda após o processo de privatização, e como esta mudança acaba por influenciar sua total estrutura. Para tanto, o escopo desta pesquisa se concentrou em um estudo exploratório na AES Eletropaulo. A importância central do estudo no setor elétrico brasileiro é que esse setor tem sido sujeito a transformações mais radicais na financeirização desde 1990. No entanto, nenhuma pesquisa sobre as carreiras construídas de dirigentes nesse contexto brasileiro tem sido feita até agora. Como procedimento de pesquisa deste trabalho, combinaram-se os métodos quantitativo e qualitativo. A fim de analisar a carreira dos dirigentes da AES Eletropaulo, foram coletados os currículos do Conselho Administrativo e da Diretoria, desde o seu surgimento como empresa estatal em 1979, até o ano de 2012. Foi aplicada uma análise de correspondência múltipla para estudar esses currículos. Além disso, para complementar a pesquisa, foi realizada uma entrevista com o ex-presidente da empresa estudada. Como resultado, foi possível observar uma série de transformações que a AES Eletropaulo sofreu, principalmente que os dirigentes dessa empresa tiveram que buscar formas de reconstruir suas carreiras de acordo com a nova lógica do momento, voltada para financeira.

Development of an indicator of propensity to energy commercial losses using geospatial statistical techniques and socio-economic data: the case of AES Eletropaulo

Given the growing importance of integrating marketing and operations indicators to enhance business performance, and the availability of sophisticated geospatial statistical techniques, this paper draws on these concepts to develop an indicator of propensity to energy commercial losses. Loss management is a strategic topic among energy distribution companies, in particular for AES Eletropaulo. In such context, this work's objectives are: (i) to appropriate spatial auto-regressive models and geographically weighted regression (GWR) in measuring the cultural influence of neighborhood in customer behavior in the energy fraud act; (ii) to replace slum coverage areas by a regional social vulnerability index; and (iii) to associate energy loss with customer satisfaction indicators, in a spatial-temporal approach. Spatial regression techniques are revised, followed by a discussion on social vulnerability and customer satisfaction indicators. Operational data obtained from AES Eletropaulo's geographical information systems were combined with secondary data in order to generate predictive regression models, having energy loss as the response variable. Results show that the incorporation of market and social oriented data about customers substantially contribute to explicate energy loss - the coefficient of determination in the regression models rose from 17.76% to 63.29% when the simpler model was compared to the more complex one. Suggestions are made for future work and opportunities for the replication of the methodology in comparable contexts are discussed.