With collaboration from Yasmin Pelegrini
At the beginning of this year, the free energy market was opened to all medium and high voltage consumers (Group A).
Although this new scenario provides an increase in competition between agents, a characteristic of the ACL (Free Trading Environment), and, consequently, an increase in the efficiency and quality of services and products, favoring the balance between agents, the movement also brings to light new concerns related to competitive aspects between agents. Thus, there is a need to improve the legal and regulatory framework and more effective monitoring of ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency).
This is due to the substantial difference between the new agents that are migrating to the free market (retail traders and smaller consumers) compared to those that have been in the ACL for longer and already know how the environment works (large energy consumers who have greater knowledge of the sector).
According to data provided by ABRACEEL (Brazilian Association of Energy Traders), traders have been facing difficulties in migrating consumers to the ACL.
Also according to the ANEEL, some distributors have been failing to comply with the deadlines for modeling retail consumers, as provided for in the Marketing Procedures and, automatically, also the deadline for the migration of these consumers.
In addition to this, there is a high economic concentration of retail traders from the same economic group as distributors in the distributor's own concession area.
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