Fonte: ANEEL
The Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency’s (Aneel) collegiate board approved the public bid notice today for contracting energy from generation ventures that use biomass as a source, classified as reserve energy. The auction is projected for next May 20 and 21 and it will negotiate energy purchasing contracts over the Internet as per availability for a period of 15 years and with supply beginning in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
The rough draft of the public notice and technical notes related to the auction were submitted to the document public hearing process last March 5-20, when Aneel received 82 contributions in writing from agents and institutions from the electric sector. The definitive version of the public notice, timetable and other documents can be consulted starting tomorrow (4/23) at www.aneel.gov.br, using the following link: Licitações/Editais de Geração.
The energy ceiling price was defined at R$ 56.00 per MWh by the Ministry of Mines and Energy. This contest will offer energy produced by thermoelectric generator plants driven by sugarcane bagasse that have been previously certified by the Energy Research Company (EPE). During the registration period, 118 plants registered at the EPE. Public or private, domestic or international companies can participate as sellers individually or in consortiums, as can Investment Fund Participations (IFP).
Reserve energy contracting will be formalized by the signing of the Reserve Energy Contract (REC) by the sellers and CCEE. The consumption agents (distributors, free and special consumers and self-producers) shall sign a Reserve Energy Use Contract (Conuer) with CCEE. Administrative, financial and tax costs in contract process structuring and management shall be shared proportionally among all National Interconnected System (SIN) consumers, including the free and special consumers and self-producers, though payment of the Reserve Energy Charge (EER), foreseen in Decree 6.353/2008.
Reserve Energy Purchase Contracts condition supply on the availability of raw material (sugarcane bagasse) for generation, regardless of the period of the year. The auction for contracting reserve energy is foreseen in the following legislation: Law 10.848/2004, Decree # 6353/2008 and Administrative Ruling # 331/2007, 020/2008 and 069/2008 of the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME).
Adjustment Auction – In a Board meeting, Aneel also authorized amendments to Normative Resolution # 162/2005 and approved the new version of the public notice for adjustment auctions. According to the new version, due to the modification introduced by Decree # 6.210/2007, the contracting limit passes, exceptionally in 2008 and 2009, from 1% to 5% of the total contracted charge by the distributors. See the official version of the public notice here.
Energy adjustment auctions are foreseen in article 26 of Decree # 5.163/04, which regulated the new commercialization model for the electric sector established by Law # 10.848/04. They can be held periodically so long as there is demand for contracting residual energy by concessionaires for complementing the supply of their respective consumer markets.
As per the commercialization rules set down in Law # 10.848/04, the electric energy distributors are obliged to guarantee full service to their respective consumer markets through the contracts registered in the Regulated Contracting Environment (ACR).
