Fonte: ANEEL

The executive board of the National Energy Agency (ANEEL) will deliberate on Tuesday (11/08), in a public meeting, proposals to make changes in rules for revision of energy rates to consumers. In 2012, 31 out of 61 distributors will have new rates approved by the Agency inside the 3rd Cycle of Periodical Rate Revisions. The theme went under public hearing (PH No.. 040/2010) from 09/10/2010 to 10/20/2010 (first phase) and 03/16/2011 to 06/03/2011 (second phase) and received around 600 contributions from 155 agents, institutions and consumers.

            
      The new methodology will be voted on by topic. See their respective rapporteurs.

One of the innovations of the new methodology is the creation of one indicator to reflect in fare power quality supplied to encourage distributors to invest to provide better service.

Another alteration is the reduction of the capital remuneration rate invested in by distributors, currently 9.95%. The drop will be possible because Brazilian economy changed with the drop of the risk in Brazil, and the investment in distribution activity of energy also became less risky, decreasing fundraising costs of companies. 

Distributors will also have to adjust onlending productivity gains to consumer, observed by their historical performance and not by a reference model company created by ANEEL. The Agency also intends to broaden the "other incomes" list earned by companies and which will be partially reversed towards the rate moderateness.

The new methodology directly impacts a part of the rate, called Part B, which reflects costs that concessionaires can manage, such as their operational costs, for example, and represents 30% of the energy bill reaching the consumer. The other part (Part A), does not depend on the management of distributors, because it refers to the cost of production and transmission of energy, taxes, levies and charges imposed by public authorities.

The rate revision happens on average every four years and is necessary to maintain economic and financial balance of the distributors that carry the energy to households, commerce and industries. This will be the third time that the revision is applied to rates (3rd Cycle of Periodic Rate Revisions). Previous cycles happened 2003-2006 (1st Cycle) and 2007-2010 (2nd Cycle).

The improved rate revision methodology postponed the application of the 3rs Cycle for 2012 with effect concerning 2011, but the completion will remain in 2014. The annual revision and readjustment are predicted in concession contracts signed between the Federal Government and companies. In the year that rates of distributors undergo revision, the readjustment is not applied.