Original title: Brazil actively responds to the problem of power shortage
Brazilian Minister of mining and energy Albuquerque said recently that Brazil is experiencing the worst water crisis in 91 years. Brazil mainly relies on hydropower. Due to the insufficient storage capacity of reservoirs, about 30 hydropower stations cannot generate electricity effectively. If this situation cannot be effectively improved, the energy storage of some power plants in Brazil will be less than 10% by November, and the power demand during the peak power consumption in summer will not be met.
Albuquerque called on the government, all sectors of society and the people to save energy as much as possible. The Brazilian government has asked federal agencies to reduce electricity consumption by 20%, and encouraged power consumers such as residential power, commercial power and industrial power to also participate in conservation actions.
At present, Brazil has to import electricity from neighboring countries and try its best to increase the power generation capacity of thermal power plants, but the cost is high. In order to avoid forced power rationing or forced blackout during the peak period of power consumption in summer, in addition to increasing the transmission from the northeast to the southeast with large power consumption, the Brazilian government also launched a series of incentive measures and launched the "voluntary power saving" plan to encourage industrial power consumers to reduce power consumption and peak shifting production through financial incentives, Provide electricity discount to ordinary residents and small enterprises who have reached a certain power saving quota.
Brazil established a segmented sales electricity price mechanism in 2015. If the energy production cost increases, additional fees will be charged to users. In this mechanism, the electricity price signs are divided into green line, yellow line, red line 1 and red line 2. Among them, the green line sign represents the temporary absence of additional electricity charge collection, and other electricity price signs represent the increasing electricity price. Due to the drought, regulators have repeatedly raised electricity prices. Since June this year, the government has collected additional electricity charges according to the standard of red line phase 2. In addition, according to the latest regulations, the Brazilian government has added a "water shortage sign" to the segmented sales price mechanism, and the additional charge will continue until April 30, 2022.
In order to encourage people to save electricity, the Brazilian Ministry of mining and energy, the Brazilian national electricity authority and other relevant departments jointly established a website called "saving consumption" to introduce the people to the source, distribution, interaction with the environment, electricity price and the power crisis faced by Brazil. The website also lists a lot of practical information to guide people to correctly use air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines and other household appliances in order to achieve the purpose of energy conservation.
(Rio de Janeiro, September 12)
Author: our reporter Bi Mengying
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