The draft Bill (PL) of the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) for electricity reform – – provides for new modalities for the consumer light bill.
One of the articles of the draft, to which the CNN It has access, lists the modalities and provides that all consumers will be able to use the options, including the tariff per time and the prepaid. MME calls the tariff modernization measure.
The main novelty would be the possibility of tariffs varying throughout the day. With the schedule, the price of kilowatt-hour (KWh) could be higher during peak demand periods, usually in the early evening, and lower at times of lower consumption, such as dawn, or high generation renewable, such as noon with strong solar incidence.
“The different rate per time, already practiced for a high voltage client (in the free energy market) aims to reduce pressure on the Brazilian electrical system, especially at peak from 18h to 21h. This is a critical time in Brazil due to the departure of the intermittent generation, such as the sun, which needs the sun to generate energy. A schedule encourages changes in the consumption pattern, which is critical to the system,” Daniel Ito, the sphere monitoring manager, says sphere manager. Energy.
The intention is to give consumers a clear economic signal to move the use of higher consumption equipment for more advantageous hours, relieving pressure on the electrical system.
Prepaid Energy
In addition to the time model, the prepaid mode is also considered, allowing the consumer to buy power credits in advance, similarly to what occurs in cell phone.
“The advantage is that the person can schedule for an amount they are buying power and may have a lower price. Thus will have a lower default, as it is being paid in advance, there is the possibility that you can have a lower price in a fare like this,” says Marcos Madureira, president of Abradee (Brazilian Association of Electricity Distributors))
International experience
In Spain, a renovation implemented in the spring of 202 introduced hours in the electricity bill, initially leading to popular belief that the ideal would be to concentrate consumption at dawn. The recommendation was based on the traditional logic of lower demand in these periods.
Leading consumers to wash clothes at dawn and condition the routine according to tariffs, but after just over three years, the Spanish scenario has become the expansion of solar energy. Today, for the millions of consumers, the cheapest times are precisely those with the highest solar generation, that is, at noon and early afternoon.
According to experts, the consumer type model should adjust according to the characteristics of each country’s electricity sector.
