Brazilians spent, on average, more than 10 hours without electricity in 2023, says Aneel

Brazilians spent, on average, 10.43 hours without electricity last year in around five outages. The calculation is from the National Electric Energy Agency (Aneel), which also released the performance ranking of distributors in the supply of electricity in 2023.

The average number of hours in the dark was lower than that recorded in 2022, at 11.20 hours. This represents a reduction of 6.9%.

The episodes of power outages, for the consumer, remain practically the same over the two years – five overall. In the more precise analysis of Aneel’s data, however, it is possible to observe that there was an improvement of 4.2%, as in 2022 there were 5.47 interruptions and in 2023, 5.24 interruptions on average per consumer.

The pauses that leave Brazilians in the dark are decreasing year after year, according to the Agency’s mapping. In 2009, for example, there were 11.27 outages and an average of 18.26 hours without electricity throughout the year.

The value of compensation paid to consumers, however, increased significantly, highlights Aneel. It jumped from R$765 million in 2022 to R$1.080 billion in 2023.

The Agency says that the increase is the result of improving compensation rules to direct higher values ​​to consumers with worse levels of continuity.

Aneel ranked the quality of services of concessionaires

The report also shows that the quality of electricity distribution services improved last year compared to 2022.

To arrive at the ranking, all dealerships in the country were evaluated from January to December 2023. They were divided into large ones, with a number of consumer units greater than 400 thousand, and smaller ones, below this number.

Companhia Jaguari de Energia (CPFL Santa Cruz), from São Paulo, had the best evaluation among large companies. In the category, the worst was Equatorial GO, from Goiás.

Among the smallest, with up to 400 thousand consumers, Empresa Força e Luz João Cesa Ltda. (EFLJC), in Santa Catarina, stood out in first place. Cooperaliança, from the same state, came in last place.

The distributors Amazonas Energia, CEA, Equatorial Alagoas, Equatorial Piauí, Energisa Acre, Energisa Rondônia and Roraima Energia were exceptionally excluded from the ranking because they were recently under the designation regime, with relaxed indicator limits.

Check the ranking according to performance in the energy supply of large concessionaires (with more than 400 thousand consumer units). Some were tied:

• 1st CPFL Santa Cruz
• 2nd Equatorial Pará
• 3rd Cosern
• 3rd Energisa Sul-Southeast
• 5th Energisa Tocantins
• 5th EDP Espírito Santo
• 5th Energisa Paraíba
• 8th Energisa Minas Rio
• 9th CPFL Piratininga
• 9th RGE
• 11th Energisa Mato Grosso
• 12th EDP SP
• 13th CPFL Paulista
• 13th Energisa Mato Grosso do Sul
• 15th Energisa Sergipe
• 15th Coelba
• 17th Light
• 18th Celpe
• 18th Elektro
• 18th Enel CE
• 21st Enel SP
• 21st Enel RJ
• 21st Equatorial MA
• 24th Celesc
• 25th Copel
• 26th Cemig
• 27th Neoenergia Brasilia
• 28th Equatorial CEEE
• 29th Equatorial Goiás