The federal government’s initial forecast that the early settlement of amounts owed to electricity distributors – due to the pandemic, in 2020, and the water shortage, in 2022 – would result in savings of R$510 million to be deducted from the accounts of Brazilians was revised by the National Electric Energy Agency (Aneel) to around R$46.5 million.
Given the situation, presented by Aneel director Fernando Mosna this Tuesday (29), based on calculations presented by the Electric Energy Trading Chamber (CCEE), Aneel approved the opening of a public consultation to discuss proposed regulation of developments tariffs for the early payment of the Covid Account, opened in 2021 to cover expenses during the pandemic, and the Water Scarcity Account, created in 2023 to help the electricity sector deal with the reduction in the volume of water in some rivers.
“The consultation will provide transparency to the effects of the measure disaggregated by distributor and will also discuss treatment directions between captive and free consumers, in addition to the creation of financial components to reflect the payment of tariffs”, informed Aneel.
Contributions to the public consultation can be sent to the email [email protected] between October 30th and December 13th of this year.
In order to obtain more in-depth detail on the calculations that led to this result, the establishment of an inspection process was also approved to evaluate CCEE’s performance in all aspects involved in the credit operation.
