Energy: who should pay what?

Energy: who should pay what?

A system that encourages efficiency aims at meritocracy.

The production chain of the electricity sector should base its decisions on the scale of minimum costs and emissions.

In Brazil, these decisions are easily achievable, since the country has a vast and unexplored potential for hydroelectric generation, which combines the lowest cost, lowest emissions and maximum availability as “firm energy”.

But our decision-making processes are far from these “conditions”.

And, unfortunately, and for this reason, Brazil is one of the last in competitiveness ($/kWh) when the reference is the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). This is how we pay for the systemic incompetence of our leaders.