Change is afoot in the Brazilian energy market. This has notably translated into lower demand in the country’s energy auctions, due to a variety of factors ranging from the impact of the pandemic to growing self-generation and measures at expanding access to the free energy market.
An energy auction held in October by the National Electricity Agency (Aneel) and Brazil’s Electricity Trading Chamber (CCEE) illustrates this lower demand. Although Aneel hailed the tender as success, saying it met the demand of only two of the 54 energy distributors that currently serve…