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Mexia é docente do MBA dirigido por Manuel Pinho e financiado pela EDP

por Filipa Martins, Publicado em 11 de Novembro de 2010  |  Actualizado há 12 horas

EDP financia MBA dirigido pelo ex-ministro da Economia na Universidade de Columbia nos EUA. CEO da empresa garante que não recebe nada pelas aulas que dá

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Desde o início do MBA, em Setembro, António Mexia já deu três aulas na Universidade de Columbia

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O CEO da EDP, António Mexia, é um dos professores convidados do MBA em Energia dirigido pelo ex-ministro da Economia, Manuel Pinho, e leccionado numa parceria entre o Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) e a universidade norte-americana de Columbia - School of Internacional and Public Affairs (SIPA). Tendo em conta a brochura do mestrado, a que o i teve acesso, António Mexia faz parte do conjunto "de empresários e de pessoas de renome" que estão a leccionar parte do MBA. Em declarações ao i, o CEO da EDP esclareceu que não recebe qualquer valor pelas aulas que dá na Universidade de Columbia, garantindo que o faz "pro bono". "Nem eu nem ninguém da EDP fomos pagos para dar aquelas aulas", garantiu o presidente da eléctrica, que até ao momento já leccionou três aulas no âmbito do MBA.


O MBA, que teve início em Setembro deste ano, está integrado num projecto a quatro anos financiado pela eléctrica nacional. Como avançou o "Jornal de Negócios" em Outubro, a empresa portuguesa fez uma doação à School of International and Public Affairs, tendo pedido à universidade nova-iorquina para não divulgar o montante da doação. Entre as iniciativas patrocinadas pela eléctrica está o MBA dirigido pelo ex-ministro da Economia.


O presidente da EDP garantiu ainda que o curso é "independente" do patrocínio dado pela empresa à Universidade de Columbia: "Não há qualquer relação." Questionado sobre o valor do patrocínio concedido à instituição, António Mexia adiantou que a EDP dá apoios a 53 universidades em todo o mundo num valor que é um pouco superior a um milhão de euros, não especificando qual o montante aqui em jogo.


Ao nome do CEO da EDP, no corpo docente do MBA, juntam-se os de António Gomes de Pinho, presidente da Fundação Serralves, José Moreira da Silva, conselheiro das Nações Unidas para a energia e vice-presidente do PSD, o ex-bastonário José Miguel Júdice, Rui Cartaxo, presidente da REN, Paulo Teixeira Pinto, ex-presidente do Milennium BCP, Manuel Sebastião, Presidente da Autoridade da Concorrência e José Braz, membro da direcção da Entidade Reguladora dos Serviços Energéticos (ERSE).


O MBA em energia tem a duração de um ano e meio. Um ano é leccionado no ISCTE, em Lisboa, sendo apenas um semestre leccionado na Universidade de Columbia em Nova Iorque. No total, o mestrado custa 37 mil euros, variando o número de alunos entre os 20 e os 40. Contactado pelo i, o ISCTE avançou que o sucesso do primeiro MBA fez com que já abrissem as inscrições para o do próximo ano, que terá início em Setembro de 2011.


A notícia de que a EDP teria financiado o MBA dirigido por Manuel Pinho levou a que o PSD pedisse esclarecimentos ao governo sobre o que considerou ser "patrocínios generosos" de uma empresa que tem uma participação de 20% da Parpública e de 5,7% da Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD).


Nas perguntas dirigidas aos ministérios da Economia e das Finanças, o deputado social-democrata Luís Campos Ferreira questionou se é tradição na EDP patrocinar entidades do ensino superior, quais apoiou nos últimos anos e os montantes envolvidos. Luís Campos Ferreira perguntou ainda se a atribuição dos donativos "englobava a condição de indicar um professor que leccionasse um seminário ou uma cadeira". Até ao momento, o governo não respondeu às questões levantadas. Com Ana Suspiro

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Portugal transformed by green energy revolution

By Syma Tariq, for CNN October 18, 2010 -- Updated 0503 GMT (1303 HKT) | Filed under: Innovation

Lisbon, Portugal (CNN) -- In recent years Portugal has been harnessing its enviable southern European climate to benefit more than just its tourism industry.
As its government announces a package of austerity measures to meet its budget deficit-reduction plans, the country is touting a USP that it believes will rescue its economy.
"In the same way as Finland is famous for mobile phones, France for its high-speed trains and Germany for its industry, Portugal will become known for renewable energy," declared Manuel Pinho, the economy minister, last year.
Now, nearly 45 percent of Portugal's electricity will come from renewable sources, up from 17 percent just five years ago. Land-based wind power has increased sevenfold in that time.
With new contracts every week for national and international firms to work on new, cleaner power plants it seems that, on the surface at least, Portugal is eco-buying its way out of recession.

The government has not installed an environmental consciousness in the people.
--Rita Alvares, green cooperative member

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Going green has been pragmatic policy as well as ideological. Buying fossil fuels used to contribute to half of Portugal's national deficit: with no fossil fuels of its own, almost all of its energy had to be imported, to the detriment of its fiscal balance and its energy security.
In the tenure of President Silva, the Portuguese government has decided to use what it has, which is 800 miles of coastline and of course, plenty of sunshine.
Ten years ago, Portugal's transmission lines were owned by private power companies that had no interest in investing in renewables, because using the technology would have meant radical changes in the grid infrastructure, increasing costs to industry.
So the government bought the lines and adapted the grid. Upgrading it to increase flexibility and better connections in remote areas to allow the production and distribution of electricity from small generators, such as domestic solar panels. There was also a combination of incentives for cleaner power generation, including the introduction of feed-in tariffs.
According to a 2009 European Commission report, this commitment has meant a surge in new business. The number of energy enterprises more than tripled from 2000 to 2006, the second-strongest growth after Spain.
The Portuguese government says 10 new dams will boost hydropower capacity by 50 percent by 2012.
Now energy companies are using their engineering know-how to pursue other eco-friendly sources, such as solar and wind, said Miguel Marques, head of Portuguese markets for NYSE Euronext.
"They are looking at market opportunities worldwide and not concentrating their production base in Portugal alone," he said.
WS Energia is one such innovator. Its solar technology products have won awards as well as new business in Italy, UK, Spain, France and the U.S.
"In 2006, we found a gap in the electricity market," one of its team, João Wemans, told CNN.
"What we did was double the captivation of solar energy through the use of mirrors [WS Energia's 'DoubleSun' product]. From the start, this idea gained national and international recognition, and was considered at the time the smartest solar technology installed in the world."
Underlying the impressive figures and bright ideas, however, is a crutch.
Much of the infrastructure in Portugal is still heavily reliant on European Central Bank funding. Without this funding, projects such as Living PlanIT -- an eco-city built from scratch, planned for the northern region of Paredes -- would be impossible.
Although renewable energy has been the basis for Portuguese firms to go global, many citizens are feeling left behind.
Environmentalists object to government plans to double the amount of wind energy, saying lights and noise from turbines will interfere with local wildlife.
Conservation groups worry that new dams will destroy Portugal's cork-oak habitats (the country's forests are one of the biggest producers of corks in the world).
"The government has not installed an environmental consciousness in the people," said Rita Alvares, part of a green co-operative in Lisbon and who pointed out to CNN the lack of recycling centers in the capital. "But it is forcing it on them when it suits its own business interests."
Another major concern is that the government will displace local companies with large multinationals -- as seen by a recent contract given to Finnish firm AW Energy.
When the Alto Minho wind farm was built, a boost in local employment was promised, but now the plant only needs 25 people to run it.
Bill-payers are also affected. The International Energy Agency based in Paris, France, has already said that Portugal's progress in renewable energy has been a "remarkable success", but "it is not fully clear that... their impact on final consumer energy prices are well understood and appreciated".
Being the third largest producer of renewable energy in Europe has meant a jump in costs -- 15 percent - to household consumers of electricity in the last 10 years.
As deficit-reduction plans take hold in 2010, households still faced an increase of 2.9 percent in their electricity bills. Portugal's small population helps in terms of capacity and positive-sounding percentages of usability.
However the small population also has the misfortune of belonging to one of the poorest country in the European Union.
As the world's markets focus their attention on Lisbon, many residents have already left because of high costs of living that do not correspond to the low wage and pension rates. Living in a renewable-energy haven has become the least of their concerns.
"Solar must change from being an expensive source of energy to one of solutions which will be able to compete directly with fossil fuel," said Wemans.
"We believe that a reduction in electricity tariffs is healthy -- and vital."

As Portugal proves to the world its admirable goals, it still has to convince many of its own citizens of the benefits.

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