ANEEL increases CDE budget to R$49,2 billion

The board of ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency) approved, this Tuesday (15), the new annual budget of the CDE (Energy Development Account), which will have an increase of 32,4% and will reach R$ 49,2 billion. The measure was taken shortly after the government published MP (provisional measure) 1.304/2025, which establishes a ceiling for the CDE and aims to limit the impact on tariffs for consumers.

This ceiling, however, will only be determined by the 2026 budget. The figure approved by the leadership of the ANEEL exceeds the R$37,1 billion of 2024. The MP also creates the Resource Complement Charge, from which the amounts that exceed the said ceiling will come.

In the exposition of the numbers to ANEEL, the tariff impact of the CDE in 2025 for low voltage consumers varies between 1,17% and 3,85% in the North and Northeast, and between 2,07% and 5,76% for the South, Southeast and Central-West regions.

The project was approved with three votes from the leadership of the ANEEL. The reporting director, Fernando Mosna, director Agnes Costa (acting as general director at the time due to the absence of the incumbent Sandoval Feitosa), and the newly appointed deputy director, Ivo Sechi Nazareno, voted in favor. Sandoval and fellow deputy director Daniel Danna did not participate in the vote.

"This budget is a sad snapshot of when the electricity sector and consumers have been burdened with various public policies that they would no longer be able to afford, but this is not a discussion about regulation," said director Agnes Costa.

She also noted that she has been drawing attention to the evolution of the CDE budget. "We now have two provisional measures in Congress, which now has the opportunity to examine the allocation of CDE resources and revisit the need to maintain some of these uses, potentially considering other more priority ones that have been highlighted by recent public policies," she said. 

However, she emphasized that “we have always seen this movement to increase CDE allocations without removing items that may be less of a priority today, considering the scenario when they were included,” the director added.

In addition to Provisional Measure 1.304/2025, Provisional Measure 1.300/2025, which promotes reforms in the Brazilian electricity sector, is currently being processed in the National Congress. A special committee comprising representatives and senators has been created to analyze the bill, which has already received over 600 amendments. The bill's rapporteur, Federal Representative Fernando Filho, said last week that the committee should be established in August, after the parliamentary recess. This is because the slow progress on the matter is a concern for industry stakeholders.

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