The board of the National Energy Agency (Aneel) will review the readjustment in the electricity bill authorized at the beginning of the year for 14 energy distributors this Tuesday (12).
It is estimated that the so-called extraordinary tariff review of 2022 will cause an average reduction of 5.5% in tariffs – a percentage that may vary by company.
The new tariffs come into effect from Wednesday (13).
The following distributors will be reviewed, which had readjustments approved between February and May of this year:
- Pernambuco Energy Company (Celp)
- Bahia State Electricity Company (Neoenergia Coelba)
- Companhia Energética do Rio Grande do Norte (Neoenergia Cosern)
- Paulista Power and Light Company (CPFL Paulista)
- Jaguari Energy Company (CPFL Santa Cruz)
- Energisa Borborema (EBO)
- Energisa Mato Grosso do Sul
- Energisa Mato Grosso
- Enel Distribuição Ceará
- Equatorial Alagoas
- Light Electricity Services
- Southern Sergipe Electricity Company (Sulgipe)
- Energisa Sergipe (ESE)
- Enel Distribuição Rio
The deliberations of the tariff processes of the distributors Energisa Mato Grosso do Sul (EMS), Energisa Mato Grosso (EMT), whose credits have not yet been authorized by the Federal Revenue Service, as well as Equatorial Alagoas and Light, were postponed, due to court injunctions.
In the case of distributors whose tariff processes have not yet taken place in 2022, the agency informed that it will make the appropriate calculations of the impact of the return at the time of the adjustment of each company.
Law 14,385/22
The review takes place after the federal government sanctioned Law 14,385/22, which allows the refund of taxes improperly charged from consumers in the electricity tariff.
In addition to the text providing that the amounts would be returned to the population, it establishes that this refund will be made through a discount on electricity bills.
Aneel would then need to apply the discounts in the annual tariff adjustments of energy distributors, and make an extraordinary review in the case of those that have already gone through the adjustment process, in order to reduce the balance of taxes unduly charged.
In total, there are about R$ 48 billion in tax credits to be used, as a result of taxes paid more by consumers in the tariff.
* Under supervision of Juliana Colombo
Source: CNN Brasil
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