Fonte: ANEEL

The Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency’s (Aneel) Special Tender Commission released the list of 145 companies that can deposit guarantees to participate in the A-5 new energy auction, projected for next September 30. The list includes 125 thermoelectric plants (TEP), three small hydroelectric plants (SHP) and 17 wind energy plants (WEP) technically qualified by the Energy Research Company (EPE). The auction will negotiate electric energy sales contracts with supply beginning in January 2013.

The list of companies is available at www.aneel.gov.br, in the link Editais de Geração/Leilão 003/2008 and profile ‘Espaço do Empreendedor‘. See the companies here.

According to the auction timetable, registration and deposit of participation guarantees must be done next Monday (9/22) in São Paulo. The place will be released opportunely by the tender commission in a Relevant Communiqué to be published on Aneel’s site. The companies that are part of this list are not the only ones that can participate in the auction, which may include three new hydroelectric plants: Cambuci and Barra do Pomba (Rio de Janeiro) and Baixo Iguaçu (Paraná).

In every case, the concession (hydroelectric plants) and authorization (thermoelectric plants, SHP, wind energy plants and expansions of existing ventures) grants are conditioned upon energy negotiations in the auction. The water source ventures will have Commercialization Contracts of Electric Energy in the Regulated Environment (CCEARs) in the quantity modality*, and the other sources will be by availability**.

The ceiling prices in the MME’s official letter no. 1249/2008, from the Ministry of Mines and Energy, will be R$ 123.00 per megawatt-hour (MWh) for SHPs and R$ 146.00 per MWh for thermoelectric and wind energy plants. HEP Reference Prices are: R$ 121.00/MWh for Cambuci, R$ 117.00/MWh for Barra do Pomba and R$ 123.00/MWh for Baixo Iguaçu.

The buyers will be those energy distribution concessionaires that declared their electric energy purchase needs for 2013 to the MME by last March 10, and who ratified or rectified these declarations by April 29 of this year, according to MME Administrative Rules 83/2008 and 158/2008. A-5 is stipulated in Law 10.848/2004, Decree 5.163/2004 and MME Administrative Rule 331/2007.

*Contract by quantity – considers the amount of energy associated with the plant’s installed power that can be contracted.
** Contract by availability – founded on the possibility of enterprise generation based on the existence of the energy source. In the case of thermoelectric plants, this source can be oil derivatives, natural gas and organic waste. In the case of wind power plants, the wind, and solar plants, the sun.