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07/31/2015
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Followed for the eighth month, the consumer's pocket will not have truce on the price of electricity. Despite the improvement in rainfall patterns and decreasing the expected demand of electricity consumption in Brazil, the general director of ANEEL (Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency), Romeo Rufino said on Tuesday, the 28th, the flag tariff August should still red.
Rufino explains that while there is an improvement in the scenario of July rains and there is a tendency to reduce consumer demand until the end of the year, the thermal will remain connected for now.
The system flags tariff was implemented in January and has since remained with the red flag. It appears in the months when the price of energy in the short term is higher, and the consumer pays R$ 5.50 more for each 100 kWh consumed.
According to figures released by Aneel in the first three months of 2015, Brazilians have paid R$ 2.4 billion more in energy bills due to the collection of the flag.
Source: Estadão
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