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31/01/2013
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Other adjustments already programmed for energy distributors can reduce the discount of about 18% announced by government
Aneel: account discounts ranging from 18% to 25.94% (Agliberto Lima / AE)
Consumers of energy distributor CPFL in São Paulo were puzzled to learn that four regions received authorization from the National Agency of Electric Energy (ANEEL) to reset the value of the bill. Doubt about 320,000 residential customers was understandable: as an increase is possible if President Dilma Rousseff announced on national television last week, an average discount of 18% for all Brazilian houses?
The discount is valid announced by the president for the entire country from Thursday, January 24 - the reduction is guaranteed by the inflow of 8.4 billion reais National Treasury, with the removal of the tariff charges and anticipation of the renewal of concessionaires would happen between 2015 and 2017. So a consumer who paid 100 dollars for the last energy consumption will pay 82 reais, on average, the next due date.
The confusion regarding the tariff adjustment is because the 63 power distributors in the country annually pass through a tariff revision to correct basically losses with inflation in the previous year. Aneel follows a schedule that provides for the revision of tariffs from February. The cycle lasts the whole year and runs until December. This means that all Brazilians suffer at some point, a new setting in the bill, regardless of the promises the president.
From the new value (the 82 now with the actual average discount), the distributors may add the adjustments previously authorized by Aneel. This account can make the discount promised by the president is, in practice, less than the value hailed on national television, with a tone of political discourse.
Aneel said the real discount all distribution ranges from 18% to 25.94%, within the proposed reduction of the government. But, in the region served by the distribution of Mococa and East Paulista, for example, since there will be an increase of 3.35% and 1.83%, respectively, in accordance with the programmed adjustments. Therefore, it is necessary to consult the situation of each company to see the rate of reduction offered by the government and the percentage of adjustment approved by Aneel.
In the case of East Paulista, for example, the customer who paid R$ 100 goes to pay R$76.62 (23.38% reduction in the scale of Aneel). About this new value, there will be an increase of 1.83%, which will account for R$78.02.
But the opposite can also occur: not always the review is an overweight in the portfolio. This is the case of residential consumers CPFL Jaguari, receiving an additional reduction of 3.51% to 18% already cut by the president. A similar situation to the CPFL Santa Cruz, which will have a discount of 5.7% on the electricity bill.
Before any adjustment enters into force, ANEEL carries out a public consultation to verify that the request is legitimate distributor. Cemig, for example, pleads a readjustment of 11.2% for residential consumers. The amount will be decided until April. Meanwhile, the 7 million consumers will have an immediate discount of 18.14%.
Strange is the Chancellor Aneel increase of 11.2% requested by Cemig, which was one of two companies that did not accept the terms offered by the federal government to anticipate the renewal of concessions. Thus, it becomes obvious that the speech of President Dilma Rousseff of "cheaper energy for all" separated, really, Brazil on "us" and "them."
Source: Veja - Online
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