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01.11.2016
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Aneel discusses change in the rate, which would bring relief in electricity bill in February
Starting in February, the Brazilian may have a relief in the electricity bill with the reduction in the fee charged price since January last year. The National Electric Energy Agency (Aneel) discusses a makeover in tariff flags, system indicating the cost of power generation and raises the rate when you need to trigger the thermal power plants.
Since January 2015, the consumer pays for the red flag, the most expensive, with current cost of R$ 4.50 for every hundred kilowatt hours (kWh) consumed. The proposal is to split the red flag on two levels of charging. In anticipation of the rapporteur of the change, the director of Aneel André Pepitone, the trend is that in February is applied to red flag level 1. The recovery under discussion would be $ 4 per hundred kWh consumed.
The total electricity bill tends therefore to a slight reduction in the next month, due to the decrease in the cost of the tariff flag. The fact that the flags have already been charged over 2015 empties expected readjustments for the year - because of the costs that were transferred to the account annually have been anticipated monthly. The percentage increases in the year, however, is still unclear. In 2015, the electricity bill rose more than 50%.
'COLLECTION WILL HAVE MORE PRECISION'
Under the proposal being discussed in open court in Aneel, the government will create two levels of the red flag, to prevent or lack of money to pay for the generation of thermoelectric energy more expensive. If at level 1 the extra cost is R$ 4 to every hundred kWh consumed, level 2 it would be R$ 5.50 - above the current level.
According Pepitone, the values - which will be in force throughout 2016 - may be reviewed by the end of the month. This is because the projections of rainfall considered before are "conservative" in relation to the impact on hydroelectric reservoir.
- There is a significant trend in the amount of R$ 4 be reduced - said, noting that the decision will be taken by the executive board of the Aneel.
The deficit of generating hydroelectric (difference between generating energy and that set out in the concession contracts) is indicative of the need for thermoelectric use. In the proposal, Aneel held an arithmetic average of the optimistic bias made by the Trade Chamber (CCEE) for 2016 and indicators of last year.
The higher the level of water in the tanks, the less need for thermal trigger and thus less tendency to collect the red flag. The proposed red flags to R$ 4 and R$ 5.50 open space to a discussion of estimates of lower values, which are closer than the points CCEE as forecast rain.
- The collection of the flag will have more accurately, to the benefit of consumers. Our challenge, that assessment is not to let it collects more or less - said the director.
In establishing the rules of the flags at the end of the month, it will already have been terminated the deadline for generating hydroelectric adhere to the government's proposal to renegotiate the risk of water shortage in the reservoirs. The possibility arose after having generators billion dollar losses in recent years, the risk for transferring the flag itself. Virtually every major hydroelectric plants, other than those of Cemig, joined the renegotiation. Cemig said it is analyzing and is expected to announce the decision in the coming days. With the confirmation of many of the dealers is small interference that factors in the price of the tariff flag in the year.
Source: Idec
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