The president of EPE (Energy Research Company), Thiago Prado, highlighted that the electricity sector will need to learn to live with curtailment – cuts in renewable generation when there is an excess of supply in relation to demand.
The statement was made last week, during a roundtable at the Rio Construction Summit 2025, which brought together representatives from industry, public authorities and institutions linked to the sector.
On the panel “Energy Transition: Financing, Innovation and Opportunities for the Productive Sector”Prado discussed the major crisis currently facing the electricity sector. He believes that while curtailment is inevitable, preserving legal certainty and investment attractiveness is essential.
“In our studies, curtailment is a given fact, something that everyone will have to live with, because it is a simple aspect of consumer relations: something is produced that no one can consume,” he stated.
The executive reinforced the need for measures to ensure balance in the sector. "It's something we need to understand and allocate risks. We need to respect contracts, respect those who invested, better understand price allocation, and also structure a solution so that we don't inhibit future expansion, which planning assumes will also occur," Prado added.
The debate also included the participation of Luciana Costa, director of BNDES; Marcello Costa, director of New Business at ABEEólica; and Michel Sednaoui, coordinator of the Task Force at ABSOLAR. The moderator was Leon Rangel, Government Relations Manager at BMJ Consultores Associados.
In Luciana's view, overcoming this challenge requires cooperation between government and the market. "I think the MPs [Provisional Measures] now offer a great opportunity for this," she said.
Michel defended the importance of clear economic and locational signage, as well as a greater emphasis on technological innovation. "The basis for these signals should be completely technical. From a technology and financing perspective, it really means accelerating storage significantly through digitalization."
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