Fonte: ANEEL

Today (07/10), the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (Aneel) performed another stage of the public hearing for the second periodical tariff readjust of Companhia Energética do Piauí (Cepisa), held live in the city of Teresina (PI). The concessionaire serves 848 thousand consuming units in 223 cities of Piauí. The presential audience, chaired by the Aneel director, José Guilherme Senna, was attended by about 60 people, and ten out of them presented suggestions live. Among participants, there were representatives of the Agriculture Federation of Piauí, the Association of Residents, the Farmers Cooperative of Piauí, consumers, community councils and councilors

The average preliminary effect noted by consumers and introduced in the public meeting is a rise of 2.36%, that will be applied in a differentiated manner by consumer class. Check the preliminary indexes:

The documents related to the proposals will be available on the “A Aneel” profile, at the link Audiências/Consultas/Fórum/Audiência Ano2009 of the www.aneel.gov.brwebsite. Written contributions to the process finished on July 8^th, while the contributions of the live session held today will be incorporated to the process of Cepisa’s tariff review. The final index of the concessionaire review, once approved by Aneel, will be in full effect as of August 28^th

The tariff review is foreseen in the concession contracts with the purpose of obtaining the balance of tariffs based on the remuneration of the companies’ investments aimed towards distribution service rendering and expense coverage effectively recognized by Aneel. It is applied to the distribution leasers every four years, on average.

The second cycle of the tariff review started in 2007 and 43 distributors have already had their results of the second tariff review approved in the first two years. In 2009, the second cycle ends with the carrying out of the process for 18 distributors.