Justice dismisses Aneel and the ONS board after energy crisis in Amapá | Amapá

As you search Prevent managers from interfering in determining the responsibilities of the blackout that arrives in Amapá for 17 days. OR G1 expects a position from Aneel, ONS and also from the Attorney General’s Office (AGU).

ONS is responsible for coordinating and controlling the electric power generation and transmission operation in the National Interconnected System (SIN) and for planning the operation of isolated systems (such as those with guaranteed supply in Oiapoque, in the far north, and Laranjal do Jari and Vitória do Jari, in the extreme south of the state). The operator is supervised by Aneel, which was created to regulate the Brazilian power sector.

There were two total blackouts, one on day 3, which took 4 days to resume supply, and another on Tuesday (17), which was adjusted by about 5 hours. There are open investigations in federal agencies (including ONS and Aneel) and state to explain the causes. While living with a rotation of energy, the population uses sunlight, does not sleep well, and loses electrical appliances.

In the precautionary measure, Judge João Bosco Costa Soares da Silva alleges that there was negligent action on the part of Aneel, ONS and the company Linhas de Macapá Transmissora de Energia (LMTE) due to the need to repair one of the three electrical transformers in the Substation Macapá, which demanded urgent repairs since the end of 2019.

The dismissal occurs when the directors were formally notified of the decision.

The Federal Police (PF) reported this Thursday that it opened an investigation into the causes of the incident that caused power outages, but that the “investigation is based on judicial secrecy.”

André Pepitone, CEO of Aneel, stated that “all efforts, at the present time, are focused on normalizing the power supply in Amapá”. He added that the agency’s teams are part of the delegation from the Ministry of Mines and Energy, including Minister Bento Albuquerque, who arrives in the state this Thursday afternoon.

Aneel said, in a note, that it respects the decision but that “actions like this end up generating noise and hindering work at a time when all efforts should be focused on the full restoration of the electricity supply in Amapá.”

• André Pepitone da Nóbrega, CEO
• Efrain Pereira da Cruz, director
• Elisa Bastos Silva, director
• Hélvio Neves Guerra, director
• Sandoval de Araújo Feitosa Neto, director

• Luiz Carlos Ciocchi, Managing Director
• Jaconias de Aguiar, Director of Corporate Affairs
• Sinval Zaidan Gama, Director of Operations
• Marcelo Prais, IT Director, Agent Relations and Regulatory Affairs
• Alexandre Nunes Zucarato, Planning Director

With the exit, the Court of Accounts (TCU) and the FP must promote, within 30 days, “all due diligence and / or audits necessary in the supervisory bodies of the energy system […] aimed at clarifying the true causes of the blackout ”.

The decision is part of the popular action mobilized by Senator Randolfe Rodrigues (Rede), from Amapá.

In this same process, the Justice had defined that the LMTE should normalize the supply in 3 days; the deadline was not met, but the magistrate extended it for another 7 days. With this, the company has November 25 as the deadline to restore 100% of the energy, under penalty of a fine of R $ 50 million.

Deadlines for energy normalization

Initially, the federal government gave 10 days to resolve the problem, which did not happen. The power distributor, Companhia de Eletricidade do Amapá (CEA), then promised to end the rotation and resume full distribution on November 26.

After the second blackout, Eletronorte, a federal government company responsible for activating thermal energy in generators, promised an interim solution to restore 100% of power until Saturday (21). Despite this, CEA CEO Marcos Pereira, asked for patience of the population because, according to him, the interruptions can continue.

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