Bill will play in the North

BRASILIA-the Government decided to adopt an exit nothing usual for trying to get ahead of your plan to build 721 kilometers of transmission line between the cities of Manaus (AM) and Boa Vista (RR), entry we need to connect all the country''s States through a single energy distribution network.
The goal is to fund the work evaluated at about $1.8 billion with R a charge billed monthly electric bill of all consumers in the country, the so-called fuel consumption account (CCC). The use of the charge for the construction of transmission lines became possible from a decree published by the Government last week and amending the rules on the use of these resources.
Originally, the burden existed only to pay for the purchase of items such as diesel oil, gas and coal used in thermal power plants of isolated regions of the country, without connection to the national grid. Now, part of your collection can be applied in the construction of transmission lines as the Manaus-Boa Vista, one of the most controversial projects in the electricity sector, the presence of indigenous lands that would be traversed by your stroke.
The capabilities of the fuel consumption account are defined annually by the national electricity Agency (Aneel). In February this year, proceeds of 2017 was closed in R $3.9 billion, well below the R volume $6.3 billion last year. The fall in this amount occurred after audits made by Aneel, which reassessed the volume of fuel used by power plants.
In the accounts of the Ministry of mines and energy (MME), the annual consumption of fuel by the State of Roraima has rotated around £ $500,000,000 a year, money that is paid with funds from the charge. Using more resources to finance the work will press further the tariff charged from the population, but the Government''s assessment is that, after four years of operation, the line itself will pay, and end spending on fuel.
Indigenous villages. The financial solution does not solve the case. The MME will still need to define what to do with the situation of concessionaire Transnorte energy, formed by Eletronorte and Alupar company State. In September 2011, the company won the concession to build the line, which had three years to get ready and operation scheduled for January 2015. It turns out that, of its 721 km, 125 km would pass by the Indigenous Cultures, where Waimiri land are 31 villages and more than 1700 Indians. The process failed authorization of the waimiri people, either of the National Indian Foundation (Funai).
At the end of last year, the company filed a formal request for cancellation of the project in the Aneel, after five years in negotiations and discussions to try to obtain licensing. In the lawsuit, the company provided an account of R $534,000,000 to receive as a financial study by the Getulio Vargas Foundation to estimate the costs and indemnity period. The Agency rejected the application for revocation, but not the indemnity.
Although Aneel have positioned himself in favor of the extinction of the contract, that''s not the conviction of MME, who plans to take the project forward. The Government''s interest in building the line is not limited only to the possibility of no longer burn polluting fuels or to get rid of the precarious conditions of supply from Venezuela, which delivers power to part of Roraima. The transmission line would allow the construction of hydroelectric dams planned to be erected in Rio Branco.