Fonte: ANEELThe new undertakings total 2,044 kilometers of extensions with works in the states of Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul

The Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (Aneel) will auction today (11/24) licenses for installation, operation and maintenance of approximately 2,044 kilometers of new transmission lines and 22 integral substations of the Basic Network*, Generation Centrals Exclusive Interest Transmission Facilities for Shared Connection (ICG)** and the Generation Centrals Exclusive Interest and Individual Character Facilities (IEG)***. The transmission facilities will connect 27 biomass plants and small hydroelectric centrals (PCHs) in the states of Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul to the National Interconnected System (SIN). Click here to check out the lots.

The auction will be carried out at the Rio de Janeiro Stock Exchange premises, in a public session, conducted by BM&F Bovespa. The objective of the contest will be to flow off the energy which will be produced by those undertakings and which has been contracted at the Reserve auction, resulting in approximately 2,000 megawatts (MW).

The undertakings, divided in three lots, will have works in the states of Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul. The lines will have their operations initiated 18 after the signing of the license contracts and will need investments estimated in R$1 billion. The construction of the 36 lines and 22 substations will also allow the generation of 9,000 direct jobs.

Individually or grouped in consortium, 14 companies from Brazil and Spain will take part in the auction. Those undertakers guaranteed their participation in the contest after delivering the subscription documents and depositing the financial warranties required in the public notice. That stage was carried out last Friday (11/21).

Rules – At this auction there will also be an inversion of stages, which consists in the legal, technical, economic-financial and fiscal habilitation after the public session of the auction and only for the winners of the contest.

The rules allow the participation of Brazilian and foreign companies, private and public, which may compete individually or in consortium, as well as participation investment funds registered an the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil (CVM). The companies which are not transmission concessionaires and the consortiums winning the auctioned lots will have to constitute a society with the specific purpose of obtaining the license and enter into the respective contract.

According to the public notice, the winners of the auction will have rights to the Permissible Annual Income (RAP) which will be composed of three installments: Basic Network transmission facilities and the amounts equivalent to the connection liabilities of the ICGs and IEGs. For each lot there is a specific percentage for each facility. See the annex to check the apportionment.

Total RAP – the sum of the amounts regarding the three installments – will be obtained when the undertakings enter in commercial operation. This amount will be remunerated until June 30, 2025. After this date, as of June 1, the ICGs and IEGs will be transferred without burdens for the local energy distributors –Empresa Energética de Mato Grosso do Sul S/A (Enersul) and Celg Distribuição.

Outorgas – Ever since 1998, Aneel has auctioned and authorized 34,083 thousand kilometers transmission line. 15,407.81 auctioned kilometers are still in operation. This year, 2,227.7 thousand kilometers of lines were energized and there is an entry prevision of over 1,730.2 thousand kilometers until December. The implementation stage of all transmission works may be followed on the Agency’s website (www.aneel.gov.br).

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*Basic Network transmission facilities– It comprises the set of facilities destined to the energy transmission services in the Interconnected System.

** Generation Centrals Exclusive Interest Transmission Facilities for Shared Connection – Transmission facilities and equipment that do not integrate the Basic Network, of common use of wind energy, biomass generation undertakings or small hydroelectric centrals, which allow access the Interconnected System Basic Network.

*** Generation Centrals Exclusive Interest and Individual Character Facilities – facilities of individual use by each plant destined to interconnection of the undertaking to the shared connection facilities (ICGs).

ANNEX

The RAP will be comprised of the following three installments:

• Income for the Basic Network transmission facilities,

• Connection Burden relating to the ICGs, e

• Connection Burden relating to the IEGs.

The amount relating to the first installment (Basic Network) will be paid by all the SIN users via Transmission System Use Tax (Tust) and corresponds to a RAP percentage in each of the following amounts:

Lot A: 64.54%;

Lot B: 54.48%

Lot C: 32.84%

The second installment will be apportioned, through burdens, between generators connected to the shared use facilities (ICGs), and also correspond to a RAP percentage for each lot:

Lot A: 18.57%

Lot B: 27.89%

Lot C: 40.71%

And finally, the last part which comprises the RAP will also be paid via burdens by the generators connected to the exclusive use facilities (IEGs) and represents the RAP percentage of each lot, as follows:

Lot A: 16.89%

Lot B: 17.63%

Lot C: 26.45%

Below is a clarifying example: