A ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency) decided to ban a collection interest, fines and interruption of energy supply in the Rio Grande do Sul because of floods that reach the state.
A suspensão will happen at 90 day period for the municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul that decreed public calamity, those who are not in this situation will have 30 days of suspension.
Currently, the period for court of the energy supply is 15 days, from the issuance of the statement by the distributor.
A Agency also decided suspend billing of sectoral charges, such as loans made during the pandemic and water crisis, values that are included in the electricity bill and have an impact of R$757 million.
Altogether, the gaucho state has the role of 20 distributors of energy, which serve together around 4,5 million consumer units. In the first half of May, more than 420 thousand consumers had energy service interruptions.
As distributors also reported that substations were off by flooding and also for security, thousands of kilometers of distribution networks destroyed, transmission networks and generating plants out of operation, dams in a state of attention, telephone call centers and in-person service points deactivated, in addition to countless consumer units, roads and accesses destroyed or completely isolated.
As distributors also informed to the Agency that there was impacts em public services such as telecommunications and water supply.
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