The proposal presented in the report was ignored; The Ministry of Mines and Energy did not comment; Aneel states that he sent a summons due to the recurrence of service problems at the dealership; the company says it remains committed to providing quality service
Final report of a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) presented in December 2023 a Legislative Assembly of São Paulo (Alesp) the need for union intervention in the company has already been highlighted Enel Distribuição SPgiven the problems in serving consumers in the capital of São Paulo and the metropolitan region in the supply of electricity. The request, however, has remained forgotten to this day. According to the state deputies who participated in the commission, it would have been necessary to carry out an audit of Enel’s accounts “to investigate possible irregularities and infractions that have led to significant levels of user dissatisfaction”.
He wanted, the National Electricity Agency (Aneel)reported that it had issued a summons for “repetition of unsatisfactory services to consumers in emergency situations.” The subpoena starts the process for the subsequent evaluation of the proposed expiration of the concession. Enel stated that “the company reaffirms its commitment to its customers and reiterates that it will continue to invest to provide quality energy and face the advancement of climate events”. THE Ministry of Mines and Energy he has not responded to date.
The Secretary of Communication of the Presidency of the Republic specifies, in a note, that President Lula established on 14 October (after the second great blackout in Sao Paulo) that Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) carry out an audit at Aneel to investigate a possible failure in Enel’s inspection.
Al State, the CPI rapporteur, Carla Morando (PSDB), specified that, after a year, the path is still that of the Union’s intervention, “with the opening of the accounts and also an audit, from 2018 to 2023, because this highlights a much higher profit compared to previous years, to the detriment of having no permanent employees, but only external employees who they hire when they deem it appropriate”.
Enel’s final CPI report was presented just weeks after last year’s November 3 blackout, which left the capital of Sao Paulo and cities in Greater Sao Paulo partially without electricity for almost a week. Several trees fell on power lines due to the wind recorded that day, but the CPI clarified that the problem was not just climate-related.
“The damage resulting from the events of November 3, therefore, did not occur exclusively due to bad weather, as the concessionaire tried to justify, nor due to the tree issue alone. As demonstrated, the harmful effects of the meteorological event were seriously aggravated to due to the previous behaviors adopted by the company, such as the constant reduction of staff, the lack of material to carry out its activities and the policy of investing in capex (capital expenditure) to the detriment of opex (expenditure operational)”, states an extract of the document in a report made by Carla Morando.
Again according to the CPI notes, the number of Enel employees fell from 8 thousand to 3.9 thousand between 2018 and 2023. “The company’s thesis is that this was compensated, in some way, with outsourcing”, we read in the document.
Aneel informed the CPI that he had imposed fines totaling 157.2 million reals on Enel’s coffers. Procon-SP also sent documents to parliamentarians in São Paulo with a list of sanctions imposed, worth R$109.1 million. The values refer to fines between 2018 and 2023. In the updated value, the numbers are around R$400 million and have become a legal dispute. “Yet the concessionaire continues to present a history of complaints. The situation has already become unsustainable”, underlines the commission document.
Lula becomes the target of a protest motion for having signaled the renewal of the Enel contract
Last June President Lula was present at the Italy and met with Enel representatives. According to him, he expected the renewal of the concession with the company. “Brazil is willing to renew the agreement if it makes a commitment to invest,” the PT member declared at the time. During the meeting, according to Lula, Enel committed to investing R$20 billion in Brazil over the next three years.
The meeting and Lula’s statement gave rise to a protest motion presented to Alesp, which is currently being drafted. The documents were signed by deputies Carla Morando, Guto Zacarias, Bruno Zambelli, Hosea de MadureiraAltair Moraes, Dani Alonso, Clarice GanemCarlão Pignatari and Rogério Nogueira.
According to the federal government, the president’s speech took place precisely to “resolve the problems that emerged” during the 2023 blackout. The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Melonihe was at the meeting. “President Lula’s speech is clear and was conditioned, already in the demonstration at the time, to the increase in investments and the non-recurrence of events similar to what happened last month”, stated the Secretariat for Communication of the Presidency of the Republic .
During the meeting, Enel promised to work to avoid blackouts in the states in which it operates. Four months later, a new storm left thousands of homes without electricity in the capital Sao Paulo, affecting 3.1 million people, according to the same company’s data. “Enel Distribuição São Paulo clarifies that the windstorm that hit the company’s concession area on October 11, with gusts of up to 107.6 km/h, was the strongest in the São Paulo metropolitan region in recent 30 years, according to the Civil Protection, and with a greater impact on the electricity distribution network”, informed the concessionaire.
The federal government said so Estadao that the Lula government “was not responsible for the concession, nor for the appointment of the current directors of Aneel, much less of the state agency of São Paulo, responsible for supervision”. The PT management also claims that part of the problems caused by the latest blackout are linked to fallen trees: pruning is the responsibility of the municipality.
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