ABRACE (Brazilian Association of Major Power Consumers and Free Consumers) is the Brazilian energy sector’s main interlocutor for the sustainable development. It acts in total consonance with its members aiming at defending energy availability at competitive prices and quality for the major consumers. This relationship, allied to the ethics and transparency, ensures its strong representation.
By becoming an ABRACE member, major manufacturing consumers and free consumers of energy integrate in a joint effort with practical actions supported by the international experience of a member of the International Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers (IFIEC) that uses such renowned institution as a benchmark to guide its actions.
‘..defending energy availability at competitive prices and quality for the major consumer.’
With more than 20 years of activities, ABRACE represents the innovation of its members’ energy management, minimizing possible attrition with the sector’s agents and entities, with full influence on the search for a solution to common problems and the facilitation for elaborating business strategies and tactics for a better and fairer operation of the Brazilian energy sector.
In order to speed up its activities and guarantee that its action contemplates all energy sector’s sensitive areas, the association is structured in seven major groups: Electric Power, Thermal Energy, Free Consumer(*), Environment, Legal and Fiscal, and NE Regional. All aim at discussing, planning, and conceiving projects and please that ensure access to energy at competitive prices and full provisioning of this component to major consumers, be them free or captives.
‘This relationship, allied to the ethics and transparency, ensures its strong representation.’
ABRACE, backing its strength and representation, has been contributing decisively for the sector’s development, through its actions. Examples of its conquests are:
By becoming an ABRACE member, major manufacturing consumers and free consumers of energy integrate in a joint effort with practical actions supported by the international experience of a member of the International Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers (IFIEC) that uses such renowned institution as a benchmark to guide its actions.
‘..defending energy availability at competitive prices and quality for the major consumer.’
With more than 20 years of activities, ABRACE represents the innovation of its members’ energy management, minimizing possible attrition with the sector’s agents and entities, with full influence on the search for a solution to common problems and the facilitation for elaborating business strategies and tactics for a better and fairer operation of the Brazilian energy sector.
In order to speed up its activities and guarantee that its action contemplates all energy sector’s sensitive areas, the association is structured in seven major groups: Electric Power, Thermal Energy, Free Consumer(*), Environment, Legal and Fiscal, and NE Regional. All aim at discussing, planning, and conceiving projects and please that ensure access to energy at competitive prices and full provisioning of this component to major consumers, be them free or captives.
‘This relationship, allied to the ethics and transparency, ensures its strong representation.’
ABRACE, backing its strength and representation, has been contributing decisively for the sector’s development, through its actions. Examples of its conquests are:
- active action in the methodologies perfecting processes for distributors’ pricing review;
- effective articulation that reverted the attempt of illegal appropriation of RTE’s (Recomposição Tarifária Extraordinária – Extraordinary Tariff Re-composition) retroactive payments; saved amounting to R$ 900 million;
- making the technical requirements applicable to free consumers’ measuring system more flexible;
- defense of major consumers’ rights to free access to electric energy high voltage transmission networks, burying the possibility of distributors to obtain absolute monopoly over transmission networks;
- collaboration on corrections made by Aneel in the calculation methodology for Distribution Systems Use Tariff (TUSD) and Electric Energy Tariff (TE);
- effective participation on elaboration of a Contingency Plan for natural gas supply, with Mines and Energy Ministry (MME);
- holding of energy auction aimed at free consumers.