Fonte: ANEEL
The Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (ANEEL – Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica) altered the location of the hearing about the 3rd Tariff Review for Centrais Elétricas de Carazinho S/A (Eletrocar). The session will be at the Câmara de Vereadores de Carazinho (RS), which is at Av. Flores da Cunha, 799, Centro. The meeting, which will take place on Thursday, April 25, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., is open to participation of the entire population and will be presided by the Agency’s director André Pepitone da Nóbrega.
The session has the objective of debating the preliminary proposal increase of 8.46% for the residential consumers served by Eletrocar. For the industries, the proposal is of an average increase of 10.56%. The hearing will also discuss the quality of the service and the limits of the continuity indicators *DEC and **FEC of the concessionaire stipulated for the period of 2014 to 2018.
Society’s participation in this event is very important, because the hearings are held whenever ANEEL discusses matters related to the rights and interests of the consumers and energy companies. To know more about the public consults and hearings – and to get to know the Agency’s primers that talk about the use of electricity and, also, about the rights and the responsibilities of the consumers, click here.
The tariff reviews promoted by ANEEL are preceded by public hearings, in which the agency seeks to hear society and receive contributions from the sector’s agents and those interested in the process. Besides participating in the live session, those interested may send contributions until 05/03/2013 to the e-mail addresses: ap025_2013rv@aneel.gov.br, for the tariff review matter; ap025_2013et@aneel.gov.br, for the tariff structure matter; ap025_2013ic@aneel.gov.br, for the continuity indicators matter; ap025_2013pt@aneel.gov.br, for the technical losses matter. The contributions may also be sent by fax (61) 2192-8839 or to the Agency’s address (SGAN, Quadra 603, Módulo I, Térreo, Protocolo Geral, CEP: 70.830-030), in Brasília-DF. After finalizing the contribution period, the subject will be discussed in a Board of Director’s meeting, which will decide on the final index to be practiced by the distribution company starting 06/29/2013. The tariff review is foreseen in the concession contracts and has the objective of obtaining the balance of the tariffs based on remuneration of the investment of the companies aimed at the distribution service providing and the coverage of expenses effectively acknowledged by ANEEL. It is applied in the distribution concession companies every four years, on average.
Eletrocar serves approximately 34 thousand consumer units in the cities of Carazinho and Chapada, in Rio Grande do Sul.
*Average Interruption Duration per consumer Unit – DEC – Time interval that, on average, during the period of observation, the consumer unit in each set considered had discontinuity of the electricity distribution. Refer to Module I of the Prodist.
** Average Interruption Frequency per Consumer Unit– FEC – Number of interruptions occurred, on average, during the period of observation, at each consumer unit of a set considered. Refer to Module I of the Prodist.
