This Thursday,(13), Minister Bento Albuquerque said that the license to install the transmission line between Manaus and Boa Vista should be issued in April.
Initially, the Minister of Mines and Energy added that “We have never been so close”. Almost a year ago, they included the line in the list of works.
As well, the concessionaire Transnorte, formed between Alupar (51%) Eletronorte (49%), will be maintained at the head of the project. The conditions will be the same as those presented by Aneel.
While the Manaus-Boa Vista line north, was auctioned in 2011, so it took three years to be ready.
Roraima is the only one outside the National Interconnected System (SIN), despite the crisis in Venezuela, which supplied the State, today it has energy from thermoelectric plants.
Indeed, in addition to energy security, when Roraima is connected to the SIN, the cost of energy should become cheaper throughout the country.
Since today, the cost of diesel thermoelectric plants in Roraima alone costs the Brazilian population around R$ 2.4 billion per year. And everyone pays.
In 2011, the concession for the electrical interconnection between Manaus and Boa Vista was tendered by Aneel, as it should have come into operation in 2015.
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The total of 721 km of the route planned to be built in an area close to BR-174 that connects the two capitals leaves on indigenous land.
Consequently, 125 km pass within the Waimiri Atroari indigenous land, where there are 31 villages and 1,600 indigenous people live on the line.
Although indigenous peoples are not against the project, they demand that they be consulted and have their requests met because of the environmental impacts.
The minister said that the project for changes to the ICMS tax rules, which is included in the tax reform proposal, should be ready at the end of this month.
Throughout the negotiations, the government considered intervening directly in the case to resolve the economic-financial issue, given Aneel's opposing signals to the request.
