Continuity Indicators - Aneel

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C) EXTRAORDINARY TARIFF REVIEW: is aimed to serve the very special
cases of justified instability. It can take place at any time, when some unpredictable event
affects the utility financial-economic balance, such as the creation of a new sector
charge. Until the moment, few cases justified its application.
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In the application of electricity tariffs, the consumers are identified by
consumption classes and subclasses: residential; industrial; commercial
and service; rural; governemnt; public lighting; public service and own
consumption. Each class has a distinct tariff structure, according to the
peculiarities of energy consumption and the power demand.
Until 2003, there was a crossed subsidy in the calculation of tariffs, or in
other words, the consumers fit in the Low Tension classes, such as
residential, paid part of the costs of consumers served in High Tension,
such as the industrial consumers. With the issuance of Decree 4.667/2003,
guidelines were determined for opening and realigning tariffs, in a manner
that, each year starting in 2003, the subsidy was reduced a little, until be
extinct in 2007. For that reason, in the period of 2003 to 2007, the Low
Tension tariff updating indexes will have been lower than the High Tension
ones.
Consumer Classification
High Tension
A1 supply tension equal to or greater than 230 kV
A2 supply tension of 88 kV to 138 kV
A3 supply tension of 69 kV
A3a supply tension of 30 kV to 44 kV
A4 supply tension of 2.3 kV to 25 kV
AS - supply tension less than 2.3 kV, served by the underground distribution
system and invoiced in Group A exceptionally
Low Tension
B1 residential and low income residential
B2 rural, rural electrification cooperative and irrigation public service
B3 other classes
B4 public lighting