This is the second list that the Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) has released for this purpose.

Another list of Brazilian companies, eight in this case, were authorized last Wednesday by Paraguay's Ministry of Mines and Energy to import electricity from the country for Brazil's Free Contracting Environment (ACL). In Paraguay, ANDE's 2024 tender to export energy from Acaray remains frozen.

This is the second list that the Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) has released for this purpose. The first was a counterpart to the bidding process launched by the National Electricity Administration, whose proposal envelopes were opened in Asunción on September 6, 2024.

The reference tender, let us note, to this day, despite the urgency expressed by Paraguayan negotiators of the April 2024 Memorandum of Understanding, remains in the pile of files being processed by the National Economic Team.

The following Brazilian energy trading companies, authorized by the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MME), participated in the aforementioned event: Enel Trading Brasil SA, Matrix Electricity Trading SA, Infinity Electricity Trading SA, Ambar Electricity Trading SA, Engelhart CTP (Brazil) SA, BTG Pactual Commodities SA, Krona Electricity Trading SA, and Vitol Power Brasil Ltda.

Of these seven companies, we recall, Infinity offered the highest price: US$21.03/MWh, for a six-year period.

UNDERSTANDING ITAIPU, FROM THE IMMEDIATE TO THE MEDIATE

The Paraguayan-Brazilian Memorandum of Understanding, which the governments signed in May 2024, despite having finalized negotiations in April, opened up the possibility of selling Paraguayan electricity to their market with Point No. 4.

"Paraguay will immediately have the opportunity to sell its energy to the Brazilian free market, in accordance with the regulations currently in force in Brazil," reads point 4 of the binational document.

The immediate, for reasons that are not well explained, became the intermediate, while the initial interpretation according to which the saleable energy also included the Paraguayan surplus in Itaipu was rechanneled into the current belief, that Paraguay cannot sell its surplus, only transfer it, and only to Brazil.

Eixos, under its main headline, reiterates that the limit of probable imports of electrical energy from our country has a monthly limit of 120 MW, equivalent to 55% of the installed power of Acaray and that they "cannot
compromise the security of the National Interconnected System.”

The eight marketing companies authorized last Wednesday by the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MME) are: Santander Insurance Brokerage, Investments and Services, Eneva, Cemig Generation and Transmission, Cemig Distributor, Genco, Deal and Impasa, and Copel.