A ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency) will test, in four permissioned cooperatives, the opening of the Free Energy Market for low voltage consumers.
The Tariff Sandbox project, approved last week, will be carried out by Cerbranorte (Braço do Norte Electrification Cooperative), Certaja (Taquari Jacuí Regional Energy Cooperative), Certel (Teutônia Energy Distribution Cooperative), and Coprel (Coprel Energy Cooperative).
Scheduled for completion in December 2025, the project will involve 3.150 consumer units and focuses on analyzing consumer reactions to different energy contracting methods, exploring sensitivities regarding price, energy sources and choice of suppliers.
With a duration of 20 months, approximately R$520 thousand will be invested to analyze consumer behavior and the different tariff modalities.
The project will be financed by Sescoop (National Service for Learning in Cooperatives), with a counterpart from cooperatives through Infracoop (National Confederation of Infrastructure Cooperatives).
The experimental phase begins this November, and participation will be voluntary, with consumers divided into control groups that will have access to different tariff models.
What is Tariff Sandbox?
Tariff Sandboxes are projects for experimenting with new tariff modalities or billing methods, given the current need to modernize tariffs, especially for consumers served by Low Voltage.
Sandboxes occur in a controlled environment that allows for proper monitoring and use of results. The adoption of tariff sandboxes by ANEEL is aligned with Complementary Law No. 182/2021, which established the legal framework for startups and innovative enterprises.
According to the Complementary Law, the regulatory sandbox methodology provides for temporary authorization for agents to develop innovative business models and test techniques and technologies, by complying with criteria and limits established by the regulatory body or entity and through a simplified procedure.
The possibility of differentiated tariffs for consumers of the same distributor was opened by Decree No. 8.828/2016, which revoked the obligation to set tariffs in a monomial form.
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Congratulations on your happy placement, professor, but our culture is still barbarously precarious... our economy even more so.
Meanwhile, Cemig and FL are blocking solar energy
regrettable, and no politician speaks out
Dear Sirs, we all know that Brazilian consumers pay one of the highest kWh in the world, one of the main reasons for which is due to taxes. Changing this is very difficult, as it affects the coffers of the States, most of which are quite deficient. The possibility of low-voltage consumers resorting to the free market is interesting, but here is the question: Why not encourage the widespread adoption of solar generation, as it offers an increasingly shorter payback and unbeatable IRR? I have had the opportunity to participate in the development of projects of reasonable size, with payback of 1,7 years and IRR of over 100%. Impossible data for the opportunity of the traditional market. Engineer, professor, master in electrical engineering sciences, designer of photovoltaic generation, energy efficiency and electric vehicle charging stations also with carport.