FIEP (Federation of Industries of Paraná) stated that the changes proposed by Provisional Measure 1.300/2025 – which deals with the reform of the electricity sector – will increase industry costs and put pressure on inflation.
“For Fiep, the measure represents a serious economic mistake, as it immediately and disproportionately transfers this cost to the productive sector and to consumers in general,” the entity said in a press release.
The text of the reform foresees an increase in charges for the industrial sector. Free consumers will share the costs of the Angra 1 and 2 nuclear plants, in addition to the expansion of the Social Tariff.
These consumers will also face an increase in the CDE (Energy Development ), due to the end of the allocation criterion by voltage level and the sharing of the costs of subsidies for distributed generation.
Another negative impact will be the removal of the discount on transport tariffs (TUST/TUSD), which eliminates the benefit of free consumers in the purchase of incentivized energy, as reported by Canal Solar.
According to government calculations, the expansion of the Social Tariff should generate an additional cost of at least R$3,6 billion for the CDE. “Fiep understands the importance of social policies, but emphasizes that such measures cannot be financed at the expense of a sector that already operates under one of the heaviest tax burdens in the world and with high operating costs,” the federation stated.
According to a study by CNI (National Confederation of Industry), carried out last year, charges and taxes already represented 44,1% of the energy bill, totaling R$102 billion in 2023.
The CDE alone ed for R$40,1 billion of this total. In 2024, this amount has already risen to R$48 billion, according to the ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency). The new exemption, with an estimated impact of at least R$3,6 billion per year, tends to increase this cost even further.
In Paraná, where industry represents 28,5% of the state's GDP and employs more than 1 million people, the impact could be even more significant.
“It is unacceptable that, instead of seeking structural solutions to the problems in the electricity sector, the government resorts to populist measures that compromise the economic sustainability of such important sectors,” highlighted FIEP.
“The industry demands regulatory predictability, fiscal rationality and fairness in the distribution of burdens. Measures like this go in the opposite direction: they are setbacks that further increase the Cost of Brazil and sabotage industrial development,” the statement added.
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