After six years, a bill that grants discounts to rural electrification cooperatives on energy purchases has returned to the Chamber of Deputies. The meeting of the Mines and Energy Committee this Wednesday (27) included the matter on the agenda. However, a request for review suspended the vote.
The project determines that the ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency) grants a 60% discount on electricity supply tariffs to concessionaires, distribution licensees and rural electrification cooperatives classified as licensees. For these, the initial forecast is that these discounts will be valid until the end of 2030.
The bill in question is 4.732/2016, authored by Congressman Alceu Moreira (MDB-RS). The congressman filed the bill eight years ago, and has been reelected twice since then, but the process has made little progress.
In 2018, the Agriculture, Livestock, Supply and Rural Development Committee had unanimously approved it. Since then, it took six years for the project to reach the Mining and Energy agenda. However, deputies Max Lemos (PDT-RJ) and Silvia Waiãpi (PL-AP) requested a review, which postponed the vote.
Alceu explains that distributors stopped serving rural communities, forcing residents of these areas to form cooperatives to build electricity networks using their own resources.
“The Federal Constitution establishes that cooperatives must be encouraged, and not offering discounts would result in losses for the performance of rural electrification cooperatives and a significant increase in the rates paid by their consumers, generating enormous socioeconomic impacts on the affected communities,” he stated.
To date, the Mines and Energy Commission has not called the next extraordinary deliberative meeting. The committee will begin the month of December with three public hearings: on Enel's role in supplying energy in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (on the 3rd); the increase in electricity bills (on the 5th); the proportional distribution of resources from railway concessions and the National River Protection Policy (both on the 10th).
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