Geração de energia fotovoltaica em uma universidade pública: abordagem da transição sociotécnica

Abstract

Sustainability has been inspiring world society to fight the environmental problems that plague territories spread across the globe in order to raise awareness that natural resources are limited and must be used conscientiously. Through this thought, the ideal of sustainable development was forged, which explains that economic development must be combined with social development and environmental preservation. Through this mentality, academia, researchers, private initiative and the State have jointly played an important role in the development of processes and products that provide technological innovations allied to sustainable development. Photovoltaic energy is one of the technological fruits generated by this union and in recent years it has played an important role in Brazil in terms of management and supply of renewable, sustainable and economical electricity. The general objective of the dissertation was to analyze, through the multilevel perspective of sociotechnical theory, the implementation of solar energy in the sustainable management of a Brazilian public university. Through this analysis, it was possible to understand the phases of the trajectory of implementation and consolidation of this technological innovation in the current dominant regime. The descriptive and qualitative research of the present work involved content analysis, documental and systematic analysis of the literature on the themes of sustainability, photovoltaic energy, sócio-technical analysis and innovation.