Agency authorizes self-producer of power in São Paulo

Fonte: ANEEL
The company Itaú Unibanco S/A was allowed to act as the self-producing electricity agent* as of the establishment and operation of thermal power plant (TPP) Itaú Unibanco – Tatuapé, located in São Paulo.The termal plant, with eight megawatts (MW) of installed power, uses diesel as fuel.

The authorization was decided at the meeting of the collegiate Board of ANEEL held last Tuesday (07/10).Currently, Brazil has 279 self-producers of energy, of which 35 sell the surplus energy produced.

Information is available at the Generation Information Bank (BIG) of ANEEL, which can be found at www.aneel.gov.br, in Technical Information.(DB / PG)

* Electricity self-producer – it is the individual or company or companies working in a consortium to receive a license or authorization to produce electricity for its own use. Decree.2003 of September 10, 1996 (Official Journal of September 11, 1996, section 1, p.17917)