New A-3 energy auction will have 64 sellers

Fonte: ANEELAneel’s Special Tender Commission published the report of 64 entrepreneurships which deposited the participation guarantees foreseen in the edict and delivered the enrollment documents for the A-3 auction, scheduled for this coming 17th. See here the list of plants which will participate as the dispute sellers. Of the 64 entrepreneurships, 60 are thermoelectric and four wind, which sum 9,198.1 megawatts (MW) of installed power. Of this total, 5,045.9 MW average will be commercialized.

The auction will negotiate on the internet contracts of energy commercialization starting supply in January 2011. The ceiling price established by the MME and included in the edict will be R$ 150 per megawatt-hour (MWh). The dispute is directed towards new enterprises of generation, or in other words, not yet authorized, to projects of enlargement of existing plants and energy importing enterprises.

Participating in this as buyers should be all the electricity distribution leasers that send to the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) their needs for purchasing electricity for the year 2011, as disciplined by the ministry itself.

Contracts of Commercialization of Electricity in the Regulated Environment (CCEARs) by availability * of 15 years. This contract modality is applied to all the generation entrepreneurships, with the exception of the hydraulic source plants.

The auction’s systematic is established in MME Ordinance nº 231/2008. The A-3 auction is foreseen in Law nº 10.848/2004, in Decree nº 5.163/2004 and in MME Ordinance nº 331/2007. All the documents related to the A-3 auction are available on the Agency’s site (www.aneel.gov.br), at the link ‘Espaço do Empreendedor/Editais de geração.’

*Contract by availability –steadied in the possibility of generation of the enterprise from the existence of the energy source. This source, in the case of thermoelectric plants, can come from products of petroleum, natural gas and organic material residues. In the case of wind, the wind and solar the sun.