Canal Energia: Coprel is the first cooperative to migrate to ACL
- Alphainfra
- May 2, 2024
- 2 min read
32 MW contract with Electra will allow an estimated reduction of 13% in the tariff in 2021. Other cooperatives must take the same attitude.
Coprel (RS) is the first energy cooperative to migrate to the Free Contracting Environment. Electra Energy won an auction promoted by the licensee in which 32 MW of conventional energy were sold. The migration operation was conducted by AlphaInfra Energia and resulted in an energy purchase and sale contract worth R$500 million that comes into force in 2021. According to Fernando Flach, Director of Expansion and Partner at Alphainfra, the licensees purchased energy of suppliers at a discount, but with the gradual end of this tariff condition, market alternatives began to be studied. “The cooperatives agreed and one of the alternatives was the free market”, he explains.
He says that due to Coprel's success, other cooperatives are already wanting to follow the same path.
They would have already started conversations to verify the amount of energy that should be contracted. “We have a high demand, synchronizing auctions. There is a very strong tendency for cooperatives to seek the free market, energy with a more attractive price due to changes in legislation”, he warns. Still according to Flach, the normal rites of tariff adjustment and review continue normally at the National Electric Energy Agency.
The process involved four stages: diagnosis of the load profile, planning the amount of energy allocated to the ACL, structuring the energy auction and processing the process at Aneel. “It is not trivial to be innovative with the regulatory complexity of the electricity sector and in these more than 15 years in the area, this project that repositioned the distributor was one of the most challenging we have worked on”, highlights Fernando Flach.
According to the President of Coprel, Jânio Stefanello, this fact should be celebrated, as it shows an important achievement for the cooperative in seeking lower electricity rates for its members. The projection is to reduce the value of energy tariffs for cooperative members by an average of 20% in the coming years. According to him, the focus is to think about the future of cooperative members and mainly the growth of industrial, commercial and rural activities.
For Aneel's General Director, André Pepitone, the tender promoted by Coprel, which was the first among the licensees to apply this device, represented a 26% reduction in energy purchases. This will result in an estimated 13% reduction in tariffs for residential consumers in 2021. Also according to Pepitone, the search for efficiency that results in lower tariffs is part of the requirements set out by Aneel in the Permission Contract signed by Coprel.
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