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Renewable Energy Market Needs:
A perspective from Europe and Latin America
ISBN 978-85-86870-48-X
Bibliography: p. 279-285
CDD – 333.794
This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union. The
content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the JELARE project consortium and
can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.
Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Chapter 1 – Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chapter 2 – Bolivia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 3 – Brazil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Chapter 4 – Chile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Chapter 5 – Germany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
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atmosphere contamination;
climate change;
deforestation;
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graduate profiles;
curriculum improvement;
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Methodological procedures
The following section will describe the:
addressed population encompassed in this study; and
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Questionnaire 3
HEIs’ departments, institutes or units involved with RE
1. RE in the university
a. Introduction of past, present and future RE practices
b. RE courses as part of already implemented programs or of future
programs
c. Policies and strategies introduced
d. Type of knowledge aquisition that the university regularly employs
e. Other practices not included in these variables
2. RE sector in which the university carries out research or
teaching activities
a. Type of energy (wind, biomass, etc.)
b. Name of the aforementioned teaching program
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oil;
biomass; and
electricity;
petrol.
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Monitoring, evaluation 8%
Providing access to latest knowlegde 17%
Linking with business or research partners 12%
Others 5%
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Very
No Minor Definite Major
Options Important
Need Need Need Need
Need
A – Academic programs
11.11% 11.11% 0.00% 55.56% 22.22%
devoted to market needs
B – Exchange programs
11.11% 11.11% 0.00% 44.45% 33.33%
between HEIs and RE Market
C – HEI’s partnership with RE
11.11% 0.00% 00.00% 44.44% 44.44%
market
D – Applied technological
researches funded by the 11.11% 11.11% 0.00% 33.33% 44.45%
market
E – Applied technological
researches funded by the 11.11% 11.11% 0.00% 33.33% 44.45%
government
F – Internships for students
11.11% 0.00% 0.00% 44.44% 44.44%
in RE companies
G – Constant analysis and
design of occupational plans 11.11% 11.11% 0.00% 11.11% 66.67%
in RE
Table 2.1 – Percentage received by participants for each option and need level.
Source: JELARE Survey, 2009.
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Lessons learned
The survey conducted by the JELARE Project with the
Higher Education Institutions and market actors in the
field of renewable energies has permitted an analysis of
this segment at different levels of interaction. In this sense,
three important lessons were learned which reflect the global
interaction of the sector as well as its structural aspects:
the technological cycle is not linked to the higher
education system. This is reflected in very low levels
of technology transfer, technological adaptation
and innovation and in the lack of technicians and
specialized engineers in the country;
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visual impact;
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1 – Includes
natural gas, coal
2 – The JELARE Surveys in Brazil and biomass.
General methodology
Qualitative approach methodology, which, according to
Oliveira (1998), allows a wide range of readings about the
subject of study, was used in this research project. The research
was conducted through semi-structured questionnaires
designed by Unisul and adapted and approved by JELARE
aiming to target the wide audience of the JELARE Project.
The audience is made up of Brazilian companies and
universities.
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SC Parcerias S.A.;
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Instituto Ideal;
Canasvieiras Transportes;
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3 – Conclusions
The main finding of the three surveys conducted in Brazil
suggest that there is a significant gap between the RE market
requirements and needs and what indeed the universities are
offering in terms of research and teaching. With regard to
capacity building, the surveys indicated that the universities
according to the stakeholders are not prepared to supply the
market needs. The surveys also indicated that there are more
needs for investments in the universities infrastructure in
order to better respond to the growing market needs for
research and training in the field of renewable energies.
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Logistics
The survey logistics were organized as shown in Figure 4.1.
Benchmarking survey
There are currently fifty-eight universities in Chile, but not
all of them do research and teach in the field of energy.
Based on Conicyt studies, there are thirty-four research
centres in Chile developing research lines on energy, and
Conicyt. “El
most of these are located in universities. Among the main
sector de
research lines developed by those centres, non-conventional
la energía
renewable energy predominates in nineteen centres. A
en Chile.
smaller number of centres (eleven centres) carry out research
Capacidades de
on electric energy. Seven centres focus their research on the
investigación
energy field. In general these thirty-four centres are located
y áreas de
in eleven universities. Additionally two more universities
desarrollo
that created energy centres in 2008 were added to the initial
científico-
sample. These thirteen universities constitute the initial
tecnológico”.
database for the survey development. Once contact with
Santiago, Chile,
the universities was established, the final sample of seven
2007.
universities were interested in participating in this project
as detailed below in Table 4.2.
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Graphic 4.3 – Subsectors of economic activity within which the companies operate.
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on energy trading.
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technology watch;
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100% of the sample said they did not have an exclusive area
specifically dedicated to renewable energy.
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3 – Conclusions
Considering the country background described at the
beginning of this national report and the results of the
performed survey, some concluding remarks should be added
from these surveys:
the RE technologies with the highest development
potential are hydraulic, wind and geothermal. The
companies surveyed showed significant interest in
developing projects on their own or jointly;
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Life Sciences;
Design;
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Market survey
As part of past activities of HAW, all RE companies in the
Hamburg metropolitan area were contacted in the recent
past to answer questions regarding renewable energy topics.
For this reason, HAW was not able to contact all companies
directly again. The procedure for the survey was therefore
as follows: during an event related to wind energy held at
HAW, the participating companies were asked at the end
of the event to manually fill in the questionnaire. A total of
twelve companies agreed to fill in the questionnaire. Later
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Staff survey
For the purpose of the participants’ selection, nearly fifty
HAW staff members working in RE or in related fields
were contacted. Twenty-five of them showed interest and
willingness to cooperate with the JELARE project and
filled in an online questionnaire.
Benchmark survey
For the benchmark survey, the HAW contacted different
institutions of higher education with which the HAW
has cooperated in past projects. These institutions received
information about the JELARE project in order to get them
interested and to invite them to take part in the survey. Of
these HEIs, five showed interest and willingness to cooperate
with the JELARE project. Four of them filled in an online
questionnaire. The results of the online questionnaire were
saved automatically in an Excel spreadsheet in order to analyse
the information. One additional university filled in a Word
template with the same questions as the online questionnaire.
The answers from this university were manually fed into the
Excel spreadsheet and the survey results were updated with
this information.
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Percentage of RE professionals
Functional area
working in this area at organization
Miscellaneous activities
(consulting, directives / politics, 64%
project development, supply of
services)
Management 36%
Administration 27%
Research and development 27%
Table 5.1 – Main work areas for RE professionals in organizations.
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Figure 5.1 – Drivers for new qualifications in RE.
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waste-heat recovery;
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socio-political framework;
project-orientated tutorials;
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B – Exchange
programs between 9.52% 4.76% 28.57% 42.86% 14.29%
HEIs and RE market.
C – HEI’s partnership
4.76% 4.76% 33.33% 38.10% 19.05%
with RE market.
D – Applied
technological
0.00% 0.00% 14.29% 52.38% 33.33%
researches funded
by the market.
E – Applied
technological
0.00% 0.00% 14.29% 38.10% 47.62%
researches funded
by government.
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Staff survey
Renewable energy generated from all types of biomass is
the topic of most interest among staff members of HAW
Hamburg. This is followed by windpower and energy
generated by sunlight (photovoltaic and solar thermal).
However, there is a general interest in all types of renewable
energy and staff members usually carry out activities in
several different fields of RE at the same time without
exclusivity for a special type of energy (similar to the market
case). The RE topics at HAW Hamburg being researched or
handled by staff go beyond the ‘traditional’ renewable energy
and have already moved in more innovative directions as
the RE market grows. Furthermore, HAW staff are mostly
interested in receiving further training in the field of RE
technologies and in research management rather than
training in curriculum development or development of
teaching modules.
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Benchmark survey
Institutions of higher education that have participated in the
German benchmark survey are very active in the RE field
at a national and international level. The majority of these
universities have made provisions regarding aspects related
to renewable energy, and a large proportion of them have
forged partnerships with national and international networks
for research on renewable energy before or since 2007.
Furthermore, the majority of universities also have funding
from the production sector for their research activities.
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energy efficiency;
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USAC;
UVG;
URL; and
Once this list was done, we attempted to cover all the existing
entities. Thus, a census was obtained and we were able to
apply the questionnaire to 10 of them. We can therefore
claim that this sample’s results are representative as well.
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Results/analysis
The three surveys mentioned in the methodology are aimed
to focus the labour market, mainly covering those industries
and organizations that are capable of influencing the offer
and demand of qualified personnel. On this basis the market
survey should be first in the analysis, because it highlights
the demand for deriving consequences afterwards, in the
Out of the 51 light of these results, for the universities, their staff and
cases, one was the administrative units to which they are affiliated that
a co-operative, represent the offer of qualified personnel for those firms. For
three this reason, the analysis that follows, based on the samples,
were non- examines first the market survey, second the staff survey and
governmental third, the universities’ organizational units in the field of RE.
organizations
(NGOs) and
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to the private
sector. The evaluation of the sectors in which these industries
and organizations work prove that the survey was, indeed,
well focused towards private and public companies and
organizations directly related to renewable energy.
The following characteristics drawn from the data gathered
should be highlighted:
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Multidisciplinary
Enhancement qualifications
New specialized
of existing (communication
Variable technical Others
basic skills, foreign
qualifications
qualifications language skills and
social skills)
Responses f % f % f % f %
YES 34 66.7 20 39.2 4 7.8 0 0.0
NO 8 15.7 23 45.1 39 76.5 42 82.4
N/A 9 17.6 8 15.7 8 15.7 9 17.6
TOTAL 51 100.0 51 100.0 51 100.0 51 100.0
Table 6.2 – New qualifications needed for organization’s employees in the future
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Answer f % f % f %
Very
important 9 45 5 25 7 35
need
Major need 7 35 13 65 8 40
Definite
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need
Minor need 1 5 1 5 0 0
No need 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 20 100 20 100 20 100
Table 6.3 (cont) – Requirements in terms of training and qualification for RE.
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Hydro
Type of RE Windpower Biofuel Biomass Biogas
energy
Sector f % f % f % f % f %
Research 1 10 1 10 0 0 0 0 1 10
Teaching 5 50 5 50 3 30 5 50 6 60
Teaching and
1 10 2 20 3 30 1 10 2 20
research
There is none 0 0 1 10 2 20 2 20 1 10
Doesn’t know 3 30 1 10 2 20 2 20 0 0
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Teaching and
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
research
There is none 1 10 1 10 2 20 6 60
Doesn’t know 1 10 0 0 3 30 2 20
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Graphic 7.1 – How long has there been a focus on RE in the activities and
programmes of your university?
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biomass;
Graphic 7.7 – How do you rate the availability of qualified renewable energy
staff on the labour market?
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Graphic 7.8 – How many staff members does your organization employ in
the field of renewable energies?
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Graphic 7.10 – What are the professional and educational backgrounds of the
employees you recruit in the renewable energy field?
Graphic 7.11 – What future employment trends do you predict for your
organization in the field of renewable energy in the short term for the next 2
years?
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Graphic 7.15 – What are the drivers for new qualification in the field of
renewable energy requirements at your organization?
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Graphic 7.18 – What do you expect from the Higher Education Institutions in
the Renewable Energy sector?
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Graphic 7.20 – How up to date do you think the HEIs are in terms of RE?
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bureaucracy.
3 – Conclusions
Survey results demonstrate that all organizations, such as
public institutions, enterprises and universities – focus on
renewable energy. In all universities, the study process or
research are related to environmental science, energy and
environmental protection study courses, which include
renewable energy topics and have existed since before 2007.
Interdisciplinary programmes in renewable energy exist and
have been developing the policy and strategy of renewable
resource problems at 75% of Higher Education Institutions.
The degree programmes have been dealt with almost all
types of renewable energy. Students have been developing
papers and projects related to those particular resources.
Taking into account that these types of energies are crucial
for Latvia, this work needs to be intensified. Currently 75%
of universities state the lack of funding for this research as
one of the most serious disincentives to continue their work.
Company survey results show that, despite a 100% interest
in corporate use of renewable energy in solving problems,
the number of employees that directly deal with renewable
energy issues amounts to only five, including just 16% of the
scientific staff.
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Germany (80%);
Bolivia (100%);
Brazil (25%);
Chile (75%);
Guatemala (90%);
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University/market relationship
In relation to the university/RE market relationship, most
of those interviewed observed a wide gap between the needs
of industry and the market in general and attributed this to
the three focus areas offered by the universities: teaching,
research and extension. 100% of the respondents in Brazil,
for example, understand that there is either a need or an
urgent need for greater interaction between the industry/
market and the universities. In Germany 64% agreed, in
Bolivia 93% and in Chile, 75%. The trend is the same for
the other countries.
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