Eletrobrás distributors will be auctioned in July and August

BRASÍLIA – With the fall of the injunction that prevented the auction of the distributors of Eletrobrás, the BNDES announced on Wednesday 18, the new dates of the call for tenders . On July 26, only Cepisa (Piauí) will be auctioned. The distributors of Acre, Amazonas, Rondônia and Roraima will be proposed on August 30, after approval of the bill approved in the House and treated in the Senate.

With regard to Ceal, in the Alagoas case, an injunction of the Federal Supreme Court Minister (STF) Ricardo Lewandowski prevents the holding of the auction because of a financial dispute between the l & # 39; State and federal governments. On Wednesday, a meeting on the subject between Finance Minister Eduardo Guardia and State Governor Renan Filho ended without agreement.

The stalemate dates from 1998, when Ceal was taken over by Eletrobrás. At the time, the Union was pbading resources to the state, which would be paid during the privatization of the distributor. The Union claims that the state is a debtor and must pay the amount advanced. Alagoas argues that it would have 200 million reais to receive the public company Eletrobrás, which has not privatized the distributor and has depreciated its market value ever since.

Together, the distributors will lose about 300 million reais per month for the holding company, or 10 million reais per day. There could be doubts as to whether the government would choose to bid only Cepisa, as defined, or Cepisa, Ceron and Eletroacre on December 26,

Each of the companies will be sold for R $ 50,000, and the winner will be the one who will offer the biggest discount of the current rate in each region. The value was deemed very low by opposition employees and parliamentarians, and the unions had the opportunity to come together to bail out the companies at auction. President of Eletrobrás, Wilson Ferreira Júnior, said that state distributors are not cheap, that they will need investments of $ 1 billion and that They will need a lot of time to do it.

The executive compares the purchase of these businesses to a wedding, with the difference that in the case of distributors, despite all the difficulties inherent in the "relationship", it is necessary to stay in business, because the return only in the long run. "The difference is that in this marriage, the investor will have to stay 30 years, he will need 30 years to get this back," he said in an exclusive interview with Broadcast / Estadão

"It n & # There is nothing like this lunch or lunch They say that the purchase price is equal to the value of six popular cars, but the day when investors buy the companies, they will have to deposit 2.4 billion dollars in investments as it's been a dowry, compared "And despite this, the investor will already be entitled to 10 million reais and 10 million reais the next day , the first week to 70 million reais, "he said, recalling the daily loss of about 10 million reais.

Ferreira Jr. denied that the transfer of theft of energy will have a Bill of one billion dollars on the electricity bill and said the impact will be 237 million dollars or 0.18% high on the local customers' electricity bill.

The report quotes a calculation from the Brazilian Association of Major Energy Consumers, which points out that several amendments included by MPs in the draft law on distributors would have an impact on account between 4% and 5%. "The goal is not to transmit cats (theft of energy), it is the opposite," said Ferreira Jr.

the impact amendments to the bill will come from other "jabutis" included by MPs, such as the tariff exemption for low-income consumers who spend up to 70 kWh per month, with an impact of 742 R $ million, and the readjustment of the value of gas delivered by Petrobrás to thermoelectric plants contracted during the energy rationing period, in both cases, Ferreira Jr. says that there is no relationship with Eletrobrás or with distributors / COLABOROU LORENNA RODRIGUES