Fonte: ANEELThe National Energy Agency (ANEEL) wants improve the standard that establishes the differences among reinforcements and improvements in transmission facilities under the responsibility of transmitters. The new regulation draft that enhances Resolution No. 158/2005 is available for consultation as of today (03/31), with the opening of the Public Hearing No. 017/2011 in the exchanging documents mode.
The decision to improve the regulation was made at the public meeting last Tuesday (03/29), based on studies conducted by the technical areas of the Agency, which identified the need to give greater objectivity in the rules to increase efficiency in the planning and implementation process of these interventions by transmitters.
Under the proposal, it is intended to distinguish the two work types according to the need to maintain or enhance the service provided. Thus, when the objective is the maintenance of public service, the intervention should be classified as an improvement. When increasing the target service, it is classified as a booster. All reinforcements must be authorized by ANEEL.
Currently, Resolution No. 158/2005 establishes that the National System Operator (ONS) forwards annually to ANEEL, along with the Expansions and Reinforcements Plan (PAR), the Systemic Interest Modernization Plan (PMIS), a document that relates interventions (some types of improvements and some types of reinforcements) at the premises of systemic interest.
The two documents contain indications of reinforcements, which have led to the unwanted situation of a particular large (bid or permitted) project to have its full operation prevented by interventions in the same small region, only authorized and listed later.
The proposal is that all the reinforcements are indicated by the ONS in the Expansions and Reinforcements Plan, to be submitted to ANEEL and the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME). Thus, the Ministry will draw up the transmission granting plan with the determination on which facilities should be auctioned and where available ones will be increased by avoiding the presence of reinforcements in different planes (PAR and PMIS).
Additionally, it is proposed that the ONS forwards the Facility Modernization Plan to ANEEL and MME. The PMIS should be included in the interventions and improvements in transmission facilities under the responsibility of transmitters.
The documents in open court are available at the website www.aneel.gov.br , at the link Hearings/Consultations/Forum. Contributions may be sent to the e-mail ap015_2011@aneel.gov.br; to the fax number (55 61) 2192-8839 or by mail to the address SGAN – Quadra 603 – Módulo I – Térreo/Protocol Geral da ANEEL – Brasília-DF – CEP 70830-030. (GL/DB)
