Neoenergia conducts a transmission auction marked by fierce controversy

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The federal government's Thursday auction of energy projects began with a landmark event performance of Neoenergia, controlled by the Spanish group Iberdrola (MC :), who had appeared to be isolated at the front in the conflict that had occurred around noon, marking a break for lunch.

After losing to the Italians of Enel (MI 🙂 in Eletropaulo (SA :), the energy distributor of São Paulo, launched at the beginning of the auction of Thursday in the first half 2006 an aggressive market that won the first three prizes, which will require investments of 4.8 billion reais, according to estimates by the regulator Aneel.

The first three winning prizes also attracted bids from companies such as Taesa (SA :), Engie Brasil Energia and Equatorial (SA :), as well as China State Grid and Canada in the first part of the year. held at São Paulo's B3 stock exchange headquarters, Neoenergia won three major project prizes, winning the race with 57%, 46.97% and 44.9% reductions from the annual limit for each batch of projects.

The auction, which involves projects requiring total investments of R $ 13.2 billion, was still marked by a strong The average reduction for the first eight lots was 51.8%, according to the National Agency Electrical Energy (Aneel)

Energisa (SA :), who took Lot 4, and the CPFL (SA :), the State Grid of China, who took Lot 5 with the discount the highest of the auction so far, of 57.1%.

Projects were also carried out by small groups such as Zopone Engenharia consortium (lot 7) and JAAC / EMTEP (lot 6) and IG Transmisssão / ESS Energias Renováveis ​​(lot 6). lot 8), which presented offers with respective discounts of 53.49%, 49% and 46.2%.

JAAC, an engineering services company, was known after being banned in the last auction of

The eight winners already engaged in the auction will require a total investment of R $ 6.4 billion from the winners, according to Aneel. Fusion Media would like to remind you that the date on this website is not necessarily real-time or accurate. All CFD (stocks, indices, futures) and Forex prices are not provided by the stock markets but by the market makers. Prices may not be accurate and may differ from current market prices, which means that prices are indicative and not suitable for trading purposes. Therefore, Fusion Media badumes no liability for any business losses you may suffer as a result of the use of this data.

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