Fonte: ANEEL

Companies from Brazil and Spain confirmed participation in the auction of concession of 19 transmission lines and 20 substations that the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (Aneel) will hold tomorrow (06/27) at 10 a.m., in Rio de Janeiro, in a public session lead by the São Paulo Stock Market (Bovespa). The 12 lots offered will be disputed by the 27 companies, which participant individually or are integrants of the 8 qualified consortiums.

The right to dispute the concessions was confirmed today (06/26) after the deposit of proposal guarantees at the Brazilian Company of Settlement and Custody (CBLC), in São Paulo. In the group of 27 qualified participants for the auction, 24 are national and three are Spanish.

Of the 31 pre-qualified companies, four will not participate individually of the auction due to not having furnished guaranteed for any of the lots. They are: Abengoa Construção Brasil Ltda., Abengoa S/A, Integração Transmissora de Energia S/A and Engevix Engenharia S/A.

All the s consortiums are apt for the dispute. Schahin Engenharia S/A didn’t furnish guarantees in lots A, E, H, J and K, but participates in lots B, D, F, I and L. TPI Triunfo Participações e Investimentos S/A is out of the dispute in lots A, B, C, E, H, J and K, but participates in the dispute for lots F, I and L. The company Elecnor S/A did not deposit guarantees in lots D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K and L, but is in the dispute integrating consortiums. Terna Participações S/A will not compete in lots E, F, H, J and K, however it madde the deposits to compete in lots G, I and L.

The concessions that will be auctioned designated to the building, operation and maintenance of approximately 3 thousand kilometers of new transmission lines of the basic network to be built in 12 states: Amapá, Amazonas, Bahia, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and São Paulo. The enterprises will go into operation within deadlines that vary from 15 to 36 months, after the signing of the concession contracts. The necessary investments were estimated at R$ 2.86 billion.

The new lines will reinforce the transmission capacity of the National Interconnected System (SIN) and allow for the generation of approximately 28.6 thousand direct jobs in the North, Northeast, Mid-West and South regions.

By the auction standards, those who offer the lowest tariff, or in other words, the lowest Allowed Annual Revenue (RAP) for the transmission service rendering will be declared the winner. The registered discounts between the annual permitted revenue foreseen in the edict and the bids in the auction should reflect in the final calculation of the tariffs paid by the consumer.

Below, the relation of qualified companies and consortiums by lot:

LOTA

1) Isolux Ingenieria S/A (Espanha)

2) Consórcio Amazonas (Centrais Elétricas do Norte do Brasil S/A – Eletronorte – 30%; Companhia Hidroelétrica do São Francisco – Chesf – 19,5%; Abengoa Concessões Brasil Holding S/A – 30%; Fundo de Investimentos em Participações Brasil Energia – 20,5%) (Brasil)

3) Consórcio Trans-Manaus (Alupar Investimento S/A – 25%; Cymi Holding S/A – 25%; Elecnor S/A – 25%; CTEEP – Companhia de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista – 25%) (Brasil)

Forecast for entrance in commercial operation: 36 months

Allowed Annual Revenue: R$ 98.52 million

Estimate of direct jobs: 6,900

Localization: The entrepreneurship will go through the municipalities of Tucuruí, Anapu, Pacajá, Altamira and Vitória do Xingu, all in Pará.

Benefits: The entrepreneurship will allow for supplying electricity to several municipalities in the states of Pará, Amapá and Amazonas, including the capitals: Manaus and Macapá. It will make the interconnection of several isolated regions to the National Interconnected System (SIN) possible. Thus, it will appease the consumer’s tariff reduction by cutting the expenses related to the Conta de Consumo de Combustíveis Fósseis (Fossil Fuel Consumption Account – CCC). In 2008, the Account value was approved at R$ 3 billion.

LOTB

1) Isolux Ingenieria S/A (Espanha)

2) Orteng Equipamentos e Sistemas Ltda. (Brasil)

3) Schahin Engenharia S/A (Brasil)

4) Consórcio Amazonas (Centrais Elétricas do Norte do Brasil S/A – Eletronorte – 30%; Companhia Hidroelétrica do São Francisco – Chesf – 19,5%; Abengoa Concessões Brasil Holding S/A – 30%; Fundo de Investimentos em Participações Brasil Energia – 20,5%) (Brasil)

5) Consórcio Solimões (Alupar Investimento S/A – 25%; Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios S/A – 25%; Elecnor S/A – 25%; CTEEP – Companhia de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista – 25%) (Brasil)

Forecast for entrance in commercial operation: 36 months

Allowed Annual Revenue: R$ 86.49 million

Estimate of direct jobs: 6,100

Localization: The entrepreneurship will go through the Pará municipalities of Almerim, Altamira and Monte Dourado and through the municipalities of Macapá, Laranjal do Jari, Mazagão and Vitória do Jarí, all in Amapá.

Benefits: This entrepreneurship will allow for supplying electricity to several municipalities in the states of Amapá, including the state capital Macapá, and Pará, interconnecting several isolated regions to the National Interconnected System (SIN). It is also going to contribute to the consumer’s tariff reduction by cutting the expenses related to the Conta de Consumo de Combustíveis Fósseis (Fossil Fuel Consumption Account – CCC). In 2008, the Account value was approved at R$ 3 billion.

LOTC

1) Isolux Ingenieria S/A (Espanha)

2) Consórcio Amazonas (Centrais Elétricas do Norte do Brasil S/A – Eletronorte – 30%; Companhia Hidroelétrica do São Francisco – Chesf – 19,5%; Abengoa Concessões Brasil Holding S/A – 30%; Fundo de Investimentos em Participações Brasil Energia – 20,5%) (Brasil)

3) Consórcio Solimões (Alupar Investimento S/A – 25%; Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios S/A – 25%; Elecnor S/A – 25%; CTEEP – de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista – 25%) (Brasil)

Forecast for entrance in commercial operation: 36 months

Allowed Annual Revenue: R$ 109.25 million

Estimate of direct jobs: 7.700

Localization: The lines will go through the municipalities of Manaus, Itacoatiara, Nhamundá, Urucará, Rio Preto da Eva, Silves, São Sebastião do Uatumã, in Amazonas and Terra Santa, Óbidos, Alenquer, Oriximiná, Curuá, Faro, Prainha and Altamira, all in Pará.

Benefits: This entrepreneurship will allow for supplying electricity to several municipalities in the states of Amazonas, including the state capital Manaus, and Pará, interconnecting several isolated regions to the National Interconnected System (SIN). It is also going to contribute to the consumer’s tariff reduction by cutting the expenses related to the Conta de Consumo de Combustíveis Fósseis (Fossil Fuel Consumption Account – CCC). In 2008, the Account value was approved at R$ 3 billion.

LOTD

1) Orteng Equipamentos e Sistemas Ltda. (Brasil)

2) Schahin Engenharia S/A (Brasil)

3) Abengoa Concessões Brasil Holding S/A (Brasil)

4) Isolux Ingenieria S/A (Espanha)

5) Elecnor Transmissão de Energia S/A (Brasil)

6) Cymi Holding S/A (Espanha)

7) CTEEP – de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista (Brasil)

8) Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios S/A (Espanha)

9) Alupar Investimento S/A (Brasil)

10) Consórcio Neoenergia – Odebrecht (Neoenergia S/A – 51%; Odebrecht Investimentos em Infra-Estrutura Ltda. 45%; Construtora Norberto Odebrecht S/A – 4%) (Brasil)

11) Consórcio Linha Verde (Centrais Elétricas do Norte do Brasil S/A – Eletronorte – 45%; Bimetal Indústria Metalúrgica Ltda. – 20%; Terna Participações S/A – 35%) (Brasil)

12) Consórcio TBE Centro-Oeste (Empresa Amazonense de Transmissão de Energia S/A – 51%; Cemig Geração e Transmissão S/A – 49%) (Brasil)

Forecast for entrance in commercial operation: 20 months

Allowed Annual Revenue: R$ 36.79 million

Estimate of direct jobs: 2,700

Localization: The entrepreneurship will go through the municipalities of Juína, Brasnorte, Sapezal, Nova Mutum, Sorriso, Sinop, Tangará da Serra, Campo Novo dos Parecis, Lucas do Rio Verde and Vera, all in Mato Grosso.

Benefits: This entrepreneurship will allow for distribution of electricity from several generation projects which will be implemented in the region of the state of Mato Grosso, being that 1,120 MW are already predicted for 2010, contributing to the state’s development and to increasing the national electricity generation capacity.

LOTE

1) Orteng Equipamentos e Sistemas Ltda. (Brasil)

2) Abengoa Concessões Brasil Holding S/A (Brasil)

3) Isolux Ingenieria S/A (Espanha)

4) Empresa Catarinense de Transmissão de Energia S/A (Brasil)

5) Elecnor Transmissão de Energia S/A (Brasil)

6) Cymi Holding S/A (Espanha)

7) CTEEP – Companhia de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista (Brasil)

8) Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios S/A (Espanha)

9) Alupar Investimento S/A (Brasil)

10) Consórcio São Simão (Furnas Centrais Elétricas S/A – 49%; Delta Construções S/A – 17%; Fuad Rassi Eng. Ind. e Com. Ltda – 17%; MPE Montagens e Projetos Especiais S/A – 17%) (Brasil)

Forecast for entrance in commercial operation: 18 months

Allowed Annual Revenue: R$ 9 million

Estimate of direct jobs: 700

Localization:

São Paulo state municipalities of Piratininga and São Paulo.

Benefits: It will reinforce the supply of electricity of the largest metropolitan region of Brazil which is São Paulo, more specifically in the southwest region, which has been presenting growth in industrial consumption, providing the continuous economic development of the region.

LOTF

1) Orteng Equipamentos e Sistemas Ltda. (Brasil)

2) Schahin Engenharia S/A (Brasil)

3) Eletrosul Centrais Elétricas S/A (Brasil)

4) Copel Geração e Transmissão S/A (Brasil)

5) Abengoa Concessões Brasil Holding S/A (Brasil)

6) Isolux Ingenieria S/A (Espanha)

7) Empresa Catarinense de Transmissão de Energia S/A (Brasil)

8) Elecnor Transmissão de Energia S/A (Brasil)

9) Cymi Holding S/A (Espanha)

10) CTEEP – Companhia de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista (Brasil)

11) Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios S/A (Espanha)

12) Alupar Investimento S/A (Brasil)

13) TPI Triunfo Participações e Investimentos S/A (Brasil)

*There is not the participation of consortiums.

Forecast for entrance in commercial operation: 18 months

Allowed Annual Revenue: R$ 3.68 million

Estimate of direct jobs: 300

Localization: Municipalities of Nova Santa Rita, Portão, São Leopoldo, Novo Hamburgo, Montenegro, Capela de Santana and Sapucaia do Sul, in Rio Grande do Sul.

Benefits: This entrepreneurships will reinforce the supply of electricity in this region, which has been presenting an increase in the demand due to the concentration of industrial parks, allowing for the continuity of the region’s social-economic development.

LOTG

1) Orteng Equipamentos e Sistemas Ltda. (Brasil)

2) Schahin Engenharia S/A (Brasil)

3) Companhia Hidro Elétrica do São Francisco – Chesf (Brasil)

4) Neoenergia S/A (Brasil)

5) Terna Participações S/A (Brasil)

6) Abengoa Concessões Brasil Holding S/A (Brasil)

7) Isolux Ingenieria S/A (Espanha)

8) Elecnor Transmissão de Energia S/A (Brasil)

9) Cymi Holding S/A (Espanha)

10) CTEEP – Companhia de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista (Brasil)

11) Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios S/A (Espanha)

12) Alupar Investimento S/A (Brasil)

13) Consórcio TBE Brasil (Empresa Catarinense de Transmissão de Energia S/A – 51%; Cemig Geração e Transmissão S/A – 49%) (Brasil)

Forecast for entrance in commercial operation: 18 months

Allowed Annual Revenue: R$ 4.83 million

Estimate of direct jobs: 350

Localization: The entrepreneurship will go through the municipalities of Eunapolis, Porto Seguro, Itabela, Itamaraju, Vereda and Teixeira de Freitas, all in Bahia.

Benefits: The implementation of this entrepreneurship will have essential importance for the tourist and agro-industrial development of the southern region of the state of Bahia.

LotH

1) Orteng Equipamentos e Sistemas Ltda. (Brasil)

2) Abengoa Concessões Brasil Holding S/A (Brasil)

3) Isolux Ingenieria S/A (Espanha)

4) Elecnor Transmissão de Energia S/A (Brasil)

5) Cymi Holding S/A (Espanha)

6) CTEEP – Companhia de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista (Brasil)

7) Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios S/A (Espanha)

8) Alupar Investimento S/A (Brasil)

9) Consórcio TBE Brasil (Empresa Catarinense de Transmissão de Energia S/A – 51%; Cemig Geração e Transmissão S/A – 49%) (Brasil)

10) Consórcio São Simão (Furnas Centrais Elétricas S/A – 49%; Delta Construções S/A – 17%; Fuad Rassi Eng. Ind. e Com. Ltda – 17%; MPE Montagens e Projetos Especiais S/A – 17%)

Forecast for entrance in commercial operation: 18 months

Allowed Annual Revenue: R$ 21.18 million

Estimate of direct jobs: 1,700

Localization: The entrepreneurship will go through the municipalities of Mirassol, Guaimbé and Araras, in São Paulo.

Benefits: This entrepreneurship will provide the reinforcement of the electricity supply to important regions in the state of São Paulo, such as: Ribeirão Preto, Araraquara, São Carlos, Limeira, Rio Claro, Mogi Mirim, Marília, Bauru, Lins, Catanduva and São José do Rio Preto, contributing to the economic development of these regions.

LotI

1) Orteng Equipamentos e Sistemas Ltda. (Brasil)

2) Schahin Engenharia S/A (Brasil)

3) Eletrosul Centrais Elétricas S/A (Brasil)

4) Copel Geração e Transmissão S/A (Brasil)

5) Terna Participações S/A (Brasil)

6) Abengoa Concessões Brasil Holding S/A (Brasil

7) Isolux Ingenieria S/A (Espanha)

8) Elecnor Transmissão de Energia S/A (Brasil)

9) Cymi Holding S/A (Espanha)

10) CTEEP – Companhia de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista (Brasil)

11) Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios S/A (Espanha)

12) TPI Triunfo Participações e Investimentos S/A (Brasil)

13) Alupar Investimento S/A (Brasil)

14) Consórcio TBE Brasil (Empresa Catarinense de Transmissão de Energia S/A – 51%; Cemig Geração e Transmissão S/A – 49%) (Brasil)

Forecast for entrance in commercial operation: 18 months

Allowed Annual Revenue: R$ 9.25 million

Estimate of direct jobs: 700

Localization: The entrepreneurship will go through the municipalities of Curitiba, Araucária, Fazenda Rio Grande, Guaratuba, São José dos Pinhais and Tijucas do Sul, all in Paraná; and Joinville, Capivari de Baixo, Cocal do Sul, Criciúma, Forquilhinha, Nova Veneza, Gravatal, Morro da Fumaça, Pedras Grandes, Siderópolis, Treze de Maio, Tubarão and Urussanga, in Santa Catarina.

Benefits: This entrepreneurship will provide the reinforcement of energy supply in these regions, which present large growth of electricity demand, especially due to the concentration of industrial parks,

providing the advance of economic development in the southern region of the state of Santa Catarina.

Lot J

1) Orteng Equipamentos e Sistemas Ltda. (Brasil)

2) Abengoa Concessões Brasil Holding S/A (Brasil)

3) Isolux Ingenieria S/A (Espanha)

4) Empresa Catarinense de Transmissão de Energia S/A (Brasil)

5) Elecnor Transmissão de Energia S/A (Brasil)

6) Cymi Holding S/A (Espanha)

7) CTEEP – Companhia de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista (Brasil)

8) Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios S/A (Espanha)

9) Alupar Investimento S/A (Brasil)

10) Consórcio São Simão (Furnas Centrais Elétricas S/A – 49%; Delta Construções S/A – 17%; Fuad Rassi Eng. Ind. e Com. Ltda – 17%; MPE Montagens e Projetos Especiais S/A – 17%) (Brasil)

Forecast for entrance in commercial operation: 18 months

Allowed Annual Revenue: R$ 6.95 million

Estimate of direct jobs: 550

Localization: The entrepreneurship will go through the municipalities of Itaboraí and Cachoeiras de Macacu, in Rio de Janeiro.

Benefits: This entrepreneurship will reinforce the service to this region, which presents great concentration of industrial parks, and which presents itself basically as an energy importer.

Lot K

1) Orteng Equipamentos e Sistemas Ltda. (Brasil)

2) Abengoa Concessões Brasil Holding S/A (Brasil)

3) Isolux Ingenieria S/A (Espanha)

4) Empresa Catarinense de Transmissão de Energia S/A (Brasil)

5) Elecnor Transmissão de Energia S/A (Brasil)

6) Cymi Holding S/A (Espanha)

7) CTEEP – Companhia de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista (Brasil)

8) Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios S/A (Espanha)

9) Alupar Investimento S/A (Brasil)

10) Consórcio São Simão (Furnas Centrais Elétricas S/A – 49%; Delta 17% Construções S/A – 17%; Fuad Rassi Eng. Ind. e Com. Ltda – 17%; MPE Montagens e Projetos Especiais S/A – 17%) (Brasil)

Forecast for entrance in commercial operation: 18 months

Allowed Annual Revenue: R$ 3.63 million

Estimate of direct jobs: 300

Localization: The entrepreneurship will go through the São Paulo municipalities of Atibaia and Bragança Paulista.

Benefits: This entrepreneurship will provide the reinforcement of the electricity supply to important regions in the interior of the state of São Paulo, contributing to economic development of these regions.

Lot L

* A subestação São Simão estará localizada no município mineiro de Santa Vitória

1) Orteng Equipamentos e Sistemas Ltda. (Brasil)

2) Schahin Engenharia S/A (Brasil)

3) Terna Participações S/A (Brasil)

4) Abengoa Concessões Brasil Holding S/A (Brasil)

5) Isolux Ingenieria S/A (Espanha)

6) Empresa Catarinense de Transmissão de Energia S/A (Brasil)

7) Elecnor Transmissão de Energia S/A (Brasil)

8) Cymi Holding S/A (Espanha)

9) CTEEP – Companhia de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista (Brasil)

10) Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios S/A (Espanha)

11) TPI Triunfo Participações e Investimentos S/A (Brasil)

12) Alupar Investimento S/A (Brasil)

13) Consórcio São Simão (Furnas Centrais Elétricas S/A – 49%; Delta Construções S/A – 17%; Fuad Rassi Eng. Ind. e Com. Ltda – 17%; MPE Montagens e Projetos Especiais S/A – 17%) (Brasil)

* The São Simão substation will be located in the Minas Gerais municipality of Santa Vitória

Forecast for entrance in commercial operation: 15 months

Allowed Annual Revenue: R$ 8.25 million

Estimate of direct jobs: 600

Localization: The entrepreneurship will go through the municipalities of Cachoeira Alta. Paranaiguara and São Simão, in Goiás; and the Minas Gerais municipality of Santa Vitória.

Benefits: The implementation of the entrepreneurship aims at the outlet of a hydraulic potential of approximately 1,000 MW, and yet approximately 350 MW from thermal mills using sugarcane bagasse, predicted to be installed in southern Goiás, contributing to the region’s economical development and to the increase of the national electricity generation capacity.