Estudo sobre as interferências da pandemia de Covid-19 nos serviços e custos do setor elétrico brasileiro

Abstract

This end-of-course work presents an analysis of the impacts that the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, through the need for the application of social isolation, caused in the services and costs of the Brazilian electrical sector. The study was based on the collection of data from the electric sector, together with the governmental organs that are responsible for this sector. Later, these data were duly treated, in order to facilitate the analyses. This work showed that indicators such as: energy load, stored energy, load forecast, supply revenue of distributors, default, were very sensitive in the first months of the pandemic, due to the application of social isolation and the lack of adaptation to this new model, however, with the gradual recovery of the economy, the adaptation process to these changes and the government support measures, these indicators returned to normal levels. It was also studied, the effects of the implementation of the COVID-account in the electricity sector, being possible to observe that this measure helped in the trend of resumption of the collection by the distributors, helping also in the dilution of the transfer of losses, because this transfer could come fully in the tariff adjustment of 2021, but through this measure, these transfers were diluted over five years. After this analysis, it was observed that some costs, such as collections due to the COVID-account and the losses caused by default, have already been included in the context of the 2021 tariff readjustment, and it is projected that the payments related to the COVID-account will continue to fall under the tariff adjustment for the next four years.