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Artur Bello Rodrigues
Departamento de Sistemas Elétricos de Automação e Energia, UFRGS Av. Osvaldo Aranha, 103, Sala 702, 90035-190 Porto Alegre, RS
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Flávio Antonio Becon Lemos
Departamento de Sistemas Elétricos de Automação e Energia, UFRGS Av. Osvaldo Aranha, 103, Sala 702, 90035-190 Porto Alegre, RS
Keywords:
Free Market, Retail Electricity Market, Electrical Energy Trading Chamber
Abstract
This paper examines regulation, operation, and performance of the Brazilian retail electricity market. In March 2021 was approved the Law Nº 14.120, that includes mechanisms for the switch-off of consumers inserted into the retail trader profile in the Chamber for Commercialization of Electricity (CCEE). After this new regulation it is expected a market modernization and increase of retail competition for all consumers to join the free market. In addition, a set of concepts related on retail electricity market is presented, focus on retailer. Following on, studies of retail market operation involving CCEE are performed, analyzing risks and the financial viability of this new market commercialization model. To demonstrate the consumer migration process, from regulate to free market, using retail trader, are analyzing the process transition, risks and economic profits.
