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Poor choices, even worse results
Poor choices, even worse results
The criteria that guide the decisions taken by the Brazilian electricity sector causes very bad results.
The price paid in USD/MWh by energy consumers, whether residential, business or institutional, is at the bottom of the global market. Very expensive (60th - the 1st being the cheapest)
* The lack of adequately sized storage dams for our hydroelectric plants,
* The lack of demand response programs that are so successful in a list of countries,
* The usual leniency with power theft - more than 10% of all energy produced
* Populist subsidies (targeting elections) and that impact a systemic increase in future costs
* The increasingly intense dispatch of thermal power plants way more expensive than hydro
And so what?
Nothing tends to change. For the simple fact that for decades in a row, there is no one who cares and who has the responsibility, power and interest to "turn around this mess".
Rafael Herzberg
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