Fonte: ANEEL

The National Energy Agency (ANEEL) will put under hearing its Regulatory Agenda proposal from 10/07 to 11/18, as said on Wednesday (10/05) by the Director-General of the Agency, Nelson Hübner, in a lecture at the VIII National Meeting of Electricity Sector Agents (ENAS), in Rio de Janeiro. The director emphasized that the program will improve the regulation quality, with more transparency and participation in social decisions and that the document is indicative to allow other relevant topics to be included.

Among the topics on the agenda are the electronic metering and smart networks, improvement of the Distribution Proceedings (Prodist) and the supply conditions (Resolution No. 414/2010), Rate Regulation Proceedings (PRORET) and Regulatory Impact Analysis institution on topics of major importance.

"ANEEL is focused on increasing public participation in the drafting of its regulations," said the director. To do so, it wants to expand practices adopted, adapt and extend the capillarity language in public interactions, improve contributions treatment received in processes, hearings and public consultations, improve representativeness of Consumer Council, systematize Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) and improve their accountability.

Hübner also presented data on energy quality indicators in Brazil and strengthened the agency's concern with the improvement of these indications, especially in the northern region, where disruptions have been more frequent and longer lasting. "It is absolutely unacceptable for a country that wants to be seated in the international economic scene to have these quality indications," he said. The director confirmed that ANEEL will not change the rule on compensation for breach of quality indicators that allow the consumer to receive discounted rate if the limits are extrapolated by the distributor. In 2010, consumers received BRL 360.24 million in compensation for the lack of supply. Read more.

The director also spoke about the third rate review cycle and presented the major changes discussed in open court, such as the end of the reference company, the incorporation of quality for the determination of the x factor (productivity gains) and the value of the regulatory remuneration. "We have simplified the model taking into account the new economic scenario of the country," he said. The new model should be decided soon by the executive board of the Agency. See here a lecture on "Regulating the Electricity Sector and Consumer Relations." (FA/GL).