A ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency) approved the addendum to the concession contracts of energy distributors. After almost seven hours of analysis on the public consultation process 22/2024, the board decided, by majority, for the extension.
Also by a majority of three votes, the regulatory agency chose to recommend to the granting authority (Union) that it evaluate the opportunity and convenience of including, among the conditions for signing the contract, the commitment to pay off fines that have already become final and binding in the administrative sphere within 180 days from the extension of the concessions.
The regulatory agency's top brass approved the report by director Agnes Costa by three votes. In addition to her, the general director, Sandoval Feitosa, and the deputy director Ludimila Silva were in full favor. Director Fernando Mosna expressed dissent and asked for a review at the end of the morning. In the afternoon, he presented a substitute, but only received the vote of Ricardo Tili.
The project monopolized the meeting of the ANEEL throughout the day. The session was interrupted after four hours for lunch, as soon as Mosna asked to review the proceedings. All eyes were on this issue, for a simple reason: around 20 of the main energy concessions will expire in the next six years, by 2031, and need to be renewed – or changed. And the current rules are seen as archaic by many businesspeople and executives.
Some of them were present at the meeting. Representatives of the Brazilian Association of Electric Energy Distributors (Abradee), companies such as Enel, Equatorial Maranhão Distribuidora de Energia, Light Eletricidade and Neoenergia made oral arguments, demanding a modernization of the rules, in line with the legal certainty that the process deserves to have. EDP Espírito Santo, whose concession expires this year, also participated in the debate.
The extensive report read in full by Director Agnes had around 400 paragraphs. Mosna's rejected amendment had another 120. Some of them were the result of contributions from the public consultation held between October and December of last year, following the procedure established by the rapporteur. Despite the divergence generated, Sandoval considered that the report allows for “great progress, especially for the consumer, since it is supported by the issue of quality of service”.
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