Neoenergia has trained more than 1,000 women through the School of Electricians

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Neoenergia has trained more than 1,000 women through the School of Electricians

The women's training project has already been recognized by the World Economic Forum and certified by UN Women; 400 new places on the course will be opened this year

Neoenergia, committed to promoting equal opportunities, has already trained more than 1,000 women in its Escola de Eletricistas training project since 2013. Of this total, around 75% of the women have been hired. This year, the program has 400 vacancies in the areas where the company operates, which highlights the company's efforts to include women in the job market.

The project was highlighted by the World Economic Forum as a global benchmark in diversity, equity and inclusion, and certified by UN Women's Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs).

In Rio Grande do Norte, one of the students swapped her position as an elementary school teacher for an electrician's uniform in the city of Mossoró, the second largest in the state. After 10 years in public and private school classrooms, Ana Raiza Casusa, 32, saw the School for Electricians, promoted by Neoenergia Cosern, as an opportunity to change careers.

"Through friends who worked in the electricity sector, I found out about the Electricians' School and signed up. I was interested in looking for new opportunities. And it worked. I finished the course in 2019 and, in 2020, I joined Neoenergia Cosern.I made a lot of dreams come true and started studying Electrical Engineering," she says.

Another professional whose life was transformed by the School of Electricians was Joyce Marques. She started as a young apprentice in the electrical sector and is now the only female inspector in Pernambuco. In the corporate area, Ana Faria is the only female operations manager at Neoenergia Elektro, which serves the states of São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul. Today, she leads a team of 246 people, 87% of whom are men.

In Brasília, a former professional soccer player found a new profession after hanging up her boots following a serious injury. Now an electrician, Marina Saraiva de Azevedo is now part of a team in Taguatinga at Neoenergia Brasília, one of the main units in the region.

Neoenergia's School of Electricians offers free training and professional qualification to residents of the concession areas, contributing to the generation of jobs and income and stimulating local economic development. In 2025, 18 mixed classes were promoted, in which women accounted for 33% of the total number of students.

This movement has driven important structural changes within the company. The inclusion of women has led to investments in the expansion and adaptation of equipment and spaces, such as the availability of smaller sizes of gloves and safety boots, adaptations to clothing, including metal-free bras for greater safety, and improvements to the changing rooms at the units.