Fonte: ANEEL
The procedures and conditions for the supply of electric power systems through collective or individual generation in isolated communities and villages have been approved by the board of the National Energy Agency (ANEEL) on Tuesday (06/05).
Such situations are characterized by the dispersion of households and the lack of scale economies in the provision of public electric power distribution, and other difficulties related to the logistics of transport and access, environmental constraints and the possibility of extension of conventional networks.
Until now, a treatment different from the one not applied to other consumers served by conventional networks existed only for the cases of appointments by Individual Generation Systems for Electric Power with Intermittent Sources (SIGFI).The new regulation created, however, the figure of the Isolated Microsystem for Generation and Distribution of Electric Power (MIGDI) for the case of collective care.
The resolution brings new innovations in service to these communities, such as the use of booklets and the annual ability to pay the bill monthly, bimonthly or quarterly.Additionally, the distributor will be permitted the installation of measuring equipment in consumer units met with SIGFI and MIGDI.In case of supply through SIGFI, from the characteristics of the load to be served and after consent of the consumer, the distributor may still deploy mixed system of delivery with the assistance of part of the load in direct current (DC).
Under certain conditions, it will also be allowed that the distributor implants reduced daily period for supply in an area served by MIGDI.The amount charged, in turn, will be strictly measured or estimated consumption values, independently thereof be lower than the reference values of the availability or cost of the monthly availability systems.
Check out the table that presents a comparison of the new provisions to those envisaged for conventional urban and rural areas.
The regulation is aimed at all the remote villages of Brazil in areas where there is difficulty or impossibility of extending networks, such as in the Pantanal and several river and sea Islands.However, there are numerous, isolated communities throughout the Amazon region, which undoubtedly constitutes the greatest challenge to the universalization of public power distribution.
The issue underwent public hearing from April 20 to June 20 last year.During the period, ANEEL received 11 contributions from consumers and industry agents. (DB/JV)
