A ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency) decided this Tuesday (4) to postpone the decision on the future of Enel-SP, the distributor responsible for supplying energy to 8 million consumers in the capital of São Paulo and in 23 other municipalities in the Metropolitan Region.
The process could lead to a recommendation to revoke the company's concession if serious service failures are found to have recurred. Even so, any decision in this regard would fall to the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME).
The case rapporteur, Agnes Maria de Aragão da Costa, defended the continuation of enhanced oversight of the distributor and recommended that the analysis be deepened before any definitive measure is taken. The deliberation was postponed after director Gentil Nogueira requested a review.
According to the report, Enel-SP failed to meet the targets in 7 of the 11 improvement plans signed with the ANEEL since 2019, including problems with supply continuity indicators in 2020 and 2023. The distributor also has accumulated R$ 262 million in unpaid fines.
The document also points out that the financial sanctions applied to the concessionaire have proven insufficient to bring about structural changes and, therefore, recommends that oversight remain active to ensure the effectiveness of the announced progress.
Enel's Position
During the meeting, Enel-SP stated that power outages exceeding 24 hours were reduced by 90% between November 2023 and October 2025. The company also highlighted the adoption of "concrete and measurable" actions, such as increasing the number of teams in the field and intensifying tree trimming efforts to protect the electrical grid.
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Enel-SP's history of blackouts is one of the main factors that led to ANEEL Judging the company. In November 2023, a storm left approximately 3 million people without power for several days in Greater São Paulo, generating criticism about the delay in restoring the system.
A similar situation occurred in October 2024, when another storm damaged a substation and again interrupted the power supply to millions of customers. Last week almost One million people were left without power in the region. also due to the heavy rains.
Since then, the dealership has been more closely monitored by ANEEL and by the Government of São Paulo, which even went so far as to advocate for the revocation of the company's concession.
The agency has already imposed fines exceeding R$ 300 million on the distributor in recent years, with R$ 165,8 million of that amount solely for delays in restoring power after the 2023 blackout. Enel-SP's current contract expires in 2028, but the company has requested early renewal of the concession.
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