President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ordered authorities from the Executive and the electrical sector to adopt “appropriate and necessary measures to fully guarantee the adequate, continuous and efficient provision of the public electricity distribution service” to the population of the metropolitan region of São Paulo.
The determination is contained in an order published in Official Gazette of the Union this Monday (12).
The energy distribution service in the capital metropolitan region of São Paulo is provided by Enel SP.
Addressed to the Ministry of Mines and Energy, the Federal Attorney General’s Office (AGU), the Federal Comptroller General (CGU) and the National Electric Energy Agency (Aneel), the order, published in Official Gazette of the Union this Monday (12), is based on failures in service provision that occurred in greater São Paulo.
Lula orders the AGU to prepare a “detailed report on the measures adopted by the electricity distribution concessionaire, starting from the first relevant interruption”, and to, to this end, use “all necessary judicial and extrajudicial measures, including requesting information from ANEEL”.
The CGU orders it to identify “possible responsibility of the federative entities involved”. It also asks that you check with Aneel the reasons for the “lack of timely action by the competent bodies, in view of the repeated requests from the Ministry of Mines and Energy to initiate an administrative process to investigate recurring failures in the provision of the service”.
