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Light bills may get even higher in 2014

05/20/2013

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Who is already finding the expensive bills, should prepare the pocket: in 2014, it gets worse. Is that from January 1, begins to enforce the tariff system flags the National Electric Energy Agency (Aneel), in which the lower reservoir levels, the greater the amount of the invoice.

This means that if the conditions are favorable hydroelectric plants (green flag), the consumer will pay the normal rate. When stocks are very low, the flag turns red, and there is an increase of R$ 3 for each 100 kWh consumed. In the intermediate level, there is a yellow flag, which adds R$ 1.50 for one consumer. Currently, would be in effect the red flag.

For Professor Department of Electrical Engineering, PUC-Rio, Reinaldo Castro Souza, the reduction of tariffs was precipitated.

- Reduce the value encourages consumption. When you have shortage of water in reservoirs, is recklessness.

The lack of rain can also endear energy. The director of the Brazilian Center for Infrastructure (CBIE), Adriano Pires, says that almost all the country's thermal power plants are in operation but the account will only come next year.

- The account of electricity distribution is paid the following year. It reaches the consumer in 2014, but only after October, as it will be an election year.

The National Institute of Meteorology does not know if the estimate rainfall year that will increase the level of the reservoirs that supply dams.




Source: Extra - online

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