O Phase (Forum of Electrical Sector Associations) suggested to the general director of ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency), Sandoval Feitosa, the organ creation to act permanently in the prevention and combat to acts of vandalism quality sabotage em power transmission towers.
O Valid identity document was forwarded to the Agency in the last Friday (13), after four attacks were recorded on facilities in the without (National Interconnected System) last week.
O forum – which brings together 27 associations representing the electricity generation, transmission, distribution, commercialization and consumption sectors – asks that the committee be created be coordinated by the MME (Ministry of Mines and Energy) and have, among its functions, a direct communication with public security bodies.
The idea is that there is also a integrated action of the MME and the ANEEL with other bodies linked to the energy sector, such as the ONS (National Electric System Operator).
The attacks
In all, four attacks on transmission towers have already been recorded in Brazil since last Sunday (8). All of them, according to the companies that manage the facilities, show signs of sabotage.
O first case vandalism occurred on Sunday (8), in Ariquemes (RO), around 21:30 pm, when a tower on the Samuel-Ariquemes transmission line was knocked down and two were twisted after the first fell.
O second incident occurred on Monday (9), at around 0:13 am, in Medianeira (PR), where a tower at the Itaipu plant was knocked down and three more were damaged.
A third occurrence it also happened on Monday, around 0:40 am on the Madeira Complex transmission line, which connects the Jirau hydroelectric plants, in Porto Velho (RO), and Santo Antônio, in Sertãozinho (SP).
O fourth and, to date, last case of vandalism registered against power transmission towers occurred in Rio das Pedras (SP), on Thursday (12), at around 14:25 pm.
There, unlike the others, there was an attempt to demolish the installation that connects the cities of Assis and Sumaré, both in the interior of São Paulo.
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