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01.27.2016
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Aneel approved changes in the tariff system flags.
Red color is replaced by two levels: R$ 3 and R$ 4.50 for every 100 kWh.
Fabio AmatoDo G1, in Brasilia
The system flags tariff, which applies an extra charge on electricity bills when it is more expensive to produce energy in the country, will change from February. The amendments were approved on Tuesday (26) by the National Electric Energy Agency (Aneel) and the main one is the creation of a new billing level.
The decision should lead to a cheapening of electricity bills from February 1. This is because the value of extra charge to be paid by consumers (red flag) should fall from the current R$ 4.50 to R$ 3.00 per 100 killowatts-hours (kWh) of energy consumed.
system of tariff flags understand (Photo: Art Editors / G1)
What changes?
Aneel decided on Tuesday that, starting in February, the red flag will be divided into two levels: a cheaper, with extra billing of R$ 3.00 for every 100 kWh, and other more expensive, which keeps the value R$ 4.50 per 100 kWh consumed.
ENERGY COST
The system now has three levels, represented by green, yellow and red flags.
On the green, there is no additional cost and therefore consumers do not pay anything more.
Yellow means that there was some increase in the cost to generate power and the red, that cost of production is very high.
In the decision on Tuesday, Aneel also decided to reduce by 40% the amount of additional charge of the yellow flag: R$ 2.50 to R$ 1.50.
Why the collection is expected to fall in February?
What sets when either enters into force is the cost of electricity produced by thermal power plants (plants running on fuel) operating in the country. The most expensive level Red Flag (R$ 4.50) will be applied if the cost is equal to or greater than R$ 610 for each megawatt-hour (MWh) produced.
According to the rapporteur of the case in Aneel director André Pepitone, now the most expensive fuel in operation has a cost of R$ 600 for each MWh produced. If this situation continues, from February the surcharge to be applied in the Brazilian electricity bills will be the first landing of the red flag, or R$ 3 for each 100 kWh.
As today are being charged R$ 4.50, there would be a reduction of 33% discount from the extra cost represented by the drive of the maximum red flag in energy tariffs.
Setting the flag which will be effective in February in the country to be officially announced by Aneel in the coming days.
Yellow flag
Under the new rule set by ANEEL, the yellow flag will take effect if the power plants operating in the country have production costs between R$ 211.28 and R$ 422.56 for each megawatt-hour.
The yellow flag not yet in force in the country since the beginning of flags regime.
If you still raining heavily - and reservoir levels in major dams of the country continue to rise - there is the possibility that the flag of the bills becomes even yellow this year.
Rain and thermal
Pepitone said that changes to the flag system are due to improvement in the scenario of the Brazilian electricity sector, mainly due to increased rainfall in recent months and has guaranteed the recovery of major hydroelectric reservoirs of the country.
Between 2012 and mid-2015, the lack of rain has led to a sharp reduction in the storage of these dams. And to save water from dams, all available power plants started to generate energy.
Thermoelectric, however, produce more expensive energy because it works through the combustion of fuels such as oil, gas and biomass.
System Flags
In January 2015, entered into force the flag system. In addition to signal to consumers that the cost of producing energy, it allows the automatic collection of resources to cover the increase in these costs through an extra in the rate.
Since then, always prevailed the red flag. From January 2015, it generated an extra charge of R$ 3. But then in March Aneel reset the value to R$ 5.50, due to higher costs in the electricity sector.
In August, the red flag fell to R$ 4.50, already reflecting the improvement in rainfall and the situation in the hydroelectric reservoirs. It is this value that currently prevails.
Source: G1
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