Electricity bill: Enel SP tariff will have an average drop of 2.2% – 06/27/2023 – Market

Aneel (National Electric Energy Agency) approved this Tuesday (27) the periodic review of the tariffs of the distributor Enel São Paulo, with a drop of 2.24%, on average, to be perceived by the concessionaire’s consumers from 4th of July.

Tariffs at Enel São Paulo, the second largest energy distributor in the country, were relieved mainly with the return of PIS/Cofins tax credits.

In the new tariffs, the return of R$ 1.77 billion in favor of consumers was accounted for, following the determination of a law passed last year, after the exclusion of ICMS (Tax on Circulation of Goods and Services) from the PIS calculation basis /Cofins on electricity bills.

The tariff review will have different effects for each class of consumers served by Enel São Paulo. Those connected to low voltage will see a tariff reduction of 0.97%, and for residential consumers, the drop will be 0.91%. Consumers connected to high voltage, such as industries, will have an impact of -6.10%.

The distributor controlled by the Italian Enel, which serves 7.5 million consumer units in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, has now undergone a periodic tariff review.

In this process, more complex than the annual readjustment and which generally occurs every four years, the regulatory agency corrects the distributors’ tariffs after an assessment of their economic-financial balance, involving factors such as distribution costs, quality targets and loss of energy, investments made, among others.

For the new tariff cycle of the Enel distributor, Aneel defined new parameters for the quality indicators of service provision.

For the DEC, which measures the duration of interruptions in the energy supply, the established limits fall progressively from 7.12 hours in 2023 to 6.63 hours in 2027. As for the FEC, which measures the frequency of interruptions, the limits reduce from 4.90 times to 4.40 times in 2027.

As for non-technical losses, the regulatory benchmark will reduce from 8.35% to 7.39% in 2026, as established by Aneel.