JOSÉ WAGNER MACIEL KAEHLER, born to November 5, 1948 in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil. Graduation in Electric Engineering from Santa Maria's Federal University in 1972. Master of Science in Electric Engineering (M.Sc.E.E.) from the Federal School of Engineering of Itajubá, Minas Gerais - Brazil, in 1976. Docteur en Énergétique, from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mines de Paris - France, between September of 1989 and December of 1993, having sustained the thesis with emphasis in integrate energy resources planning and management, on July 06, 1993. Employee of the State Company of Electric Energy - CEEE, from April of 1973 to July of 1996 having exercised professional activities ...