APOLINÁRIO, E. K. F.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1646763358010079; APOLINÁRIO, Emanuela Karla de Freitas.
Abstract:
The Brazilian Electricity Sector (Setor Elétrico Brasileiro, or SEB) was the scene of
important changes throughout the 20th century, culminating in its opening for free trade
in 1995, a result of the institutional crisis that occurred in the early 1990's. Facing a long
transition process, this scenario of free competition boosted what would after be called
Project of Restructuration of the Brazilian Electricity Sector (Projeto de Reestruturação
do Setor Elétrico Brasileiro, or RE-SEB), launched by the Federal Government with the
objective of uniting public and private capital in the same commercialization
environment. In this new scenario economic reform, new attributions to institutional
agents were reformulated and new economic agents emerged, as well as a new
organization of the energy market, now in two contracting environments – regulated and
free – allied to the short-term market. These environments involve a variety of taxes and
contract transactions, which include the rights and duties of each SEB agent as well as
clarify the risks and opportunities that the agents have in each environment. In this light,
this work aims to present the current structure of the SEB, including its agents and
physical structure of the electric system administered by it; and specifically to present
how the commercialization of electric energy in Brazil is formed, from its contracting
environments, transactions and associated costs, to the risks and opportunities to
migrate between the environments. Once the procedures for the free and regulated
environment (captive) of energy are known, a comparative analysis of three
methodologies proposed in studies of migration from the captive consumer to the free
market as a special consumer have been constructed, in order to find the methodology
that satisfies the most the criteria considered relevant to a conscious, positive and secure
migration.
