Environmental

The country's energy deficit of risk increases, but system maintains balance

01/08/2015

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The risk of having energy deficit this year in the Southeast and Midwest rose from 4.2% in December to 4.9% this month, reported today (7) the Monitoring Committee of the Electricity Sector (CMSE). In the Northeast, the risk that was 0.3%, increased to 1.2%. According to the committee, the expected load for 2015 is 67 260 megawatts (MW) power average.

In December, the rain was above normal in the south, except in the west and south of Paraná. Already in most of the country - especially in the Southeast, Midwest and North - the rains were below the historical average. In the Northeast, the rainfall was also loss-making, but closer to the historical average values. Despite the rain below average in most of the country, the committee said through a statement that the electrical system is "structurally balanced" due to the generation and transmission capacity installed in the country, which continues to be expanded with the start-up of plants, lines and substations.

Although, in assessing the CMSE, the system reports "structural balance" is considered the possibility of "specific short-term actions," if necessary - measures which, in theory, can be from the drive thermal until determinations for changes in the level reservoirs, or even energy rationing. Still according to the note, the National Interconnected System is able to supply the country in 2015, although the main river basins where are the reservoirs of the Southeast / Midwest and Northeast have faced unfavorable weather conditions in the wet period of the previous year.



Source: Agency Brazil

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