Professional market for the area of energy and energy efficiency in Brazil/ Mercado profissional para a area de energia e eficiencia energetica no Brasil/ Mercado profesional para el area de energia y eficiencia energetica en Brasil

With the increasing share of renewable energy sources in our energy mix and the great concern of organizations with energy management, it is evidenced the need to promote vocational training programs which ensure the specialized labor for the professionals involved in these processes. Several aspects are relevant, and among these it is possible to identify a lack of knowledge in the use of modern technologies, deficit of infrastructure for educational and training institutions, insufficient standardization, and a lack of projects for accreditation of workforce, so that the results of the projects developed in the areas energy and energy efficiency are guaranteed. In this paper, the current study of the major bottlenecks in the formation of these professionals is presented, as well as an overview of the educational actions developed by public and private initiatives, along with the rest of the actors involved, whose goal is to reduce the lack of technical knowledge of professionals and to guarantee the benefits that these recent technologies can bring to the economy, society, environment and to the development of the country. Keywords: Labor, Technical knowledge, Professional training. Com o crescente aumento da participacao de fontes renovaveis de geracao energia em nossa matriz energetica e a grande preocupacao das organizacoes com a gestao de energia, cada vez mais, e evidenciado a necessidade de se promover programas de formacao profissional que garantam a mao obra especializada para os profissionais envolvidos nestes processos. Varios aspectos sao relevantes, entre esses e possivel identificar a falta de know-how para uso de novas tecnologias, infraestrutura das instituicoes de ensino, formacao, padronizacao e projetos para certificacao de pessoas, para que assim sejam garantidos os resultados dos projetos desenvolvidos nas areas de energia e eficiencia energetica. Neste trabalho e apresentado o estudo atual dos principais gargalos na formacao destes profis sionais, bem como um cenario geral das acoes educacionais desenvolvidas pela iniciativa publica e privada, juntamente com os demais atores envolvidos, com objetivo de reduzir a carencia tecnica dos profissionais e a garantia dos beneficios que estas novas tecnologias podem trazer para a economia, sociedade, meio ambiente e para o desenvolvimento do pais. Palavras-chave: Mao de obra, Know-how, Formacao profissional. Dada la creciente participacion de las fuentes renovables de generacion de energia en