CEMIG JOINS UN
NET-ZERO AMBITION MOVEMENT
ON THE PATH TO BECOME
DECABORNIZED BY
2040

#We are a company

We are committed to fighting climate change.

 

We have always prioritized the identification of risks and business opportunities, so as to establish the best solutions to decarbonize our operations.

 

Joining the UN Global Compact’s Net Zero Ambition Program.in 2021 marks a milestone in Cemig’s decarbonization journey. We undertook to reduce 90% of our greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR

The world economy is highly dependent on polluting fossil fuels. But this is changing.

 

The energy sector has been investing heavily on furthering a clean and low-carbon economy, through energy efficiency and renewable energies and technologies designed to reduce net carbon emissions to zero.

 

Only by undertaking such initiatives can we:

  • fight climate change;
  • limit the planet’s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius;
  • reduce potential impacts on our planet.

OUR CLIMATE STRATEGIES CLIMATE

We are focused on reducing 70% of our global emissions by 2030.

Matrix 100% renewable

Expansion plan for energy generation focused on renewable sources: construction of two solar photovoltaic plants in Minas Gerais. By 2027, another R$12 billion will be invested in renewable sources.

Expansion of distributed generation

Cemig Sim, a Cemig Group company, has been increasingly gaining solar energy consumer units and plans to invest roughly R$1 billion in the distributed generation segment between 2022 and 2025.

Investment in Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency initiatives contribute to reducing energy consumption in various economic sectors. Learn more

The Minas LED Program, implemented in over 600 municipalities of the state of Minas Gerais, has stood out, aiming at replacing inefficient light bulbs with LED light bulbs.

Increase in the electric vehicle fleet

We have acquired more electric vehicles and issued guidelines for the use of ethanol in fossil-fuel vehicles.

Renewable Energy Certificates

We have sold over 2 million Renewable Energy Certificates – I-RECs and Cemig RECs. Learn more

Reduction in electricity distribution losses

We have already managed to reach the regulatory limit of losses by adopting various initiatives from the Energy Recovery Plan:

 

  • We conducted nearly 500 thousand inspections per year in consumer units in the company’s concession area.
  • We regularized approximately 100 thousand uncontracted consumer units with energy consumption in 2022.
  • We reduced administrative losses in over 10 thousand consumer units in 2022.
  • We removed more than 4 thousand irregular connections
  • We replaced thousands of obsolete meters with smart meters.