Roadmap for Electricity Access as a Development Driver in the Legal Amazon

The second phase started with a review of the internal document and RAP's participation in the Second Energy and Communities event in the city of Belem in Pará state, part of the Legal Amazon region in Brazil. [...] The current institutional framework of the Brazilian power sector dates back to 2004 (Figure 1).1 Changes in the power system and markets — such as the expansion of distributed generation, unclear price signals for reliability, the need for more granularity in prices and the evolution of subsidies and charges — have led to calls to update market rules and the institutional framework. [...] Timeline of main electricity access policies and regulations 2.4 The Legal Amazon Region: A Definition and the Energy Transition There The Legal Amazon region (see Figure 411 on the next page), established in 2007, is the administrative area of the Superintendence of Amazon Development (an agency linked to the Ministry of National Integration and Regional Development). [...] Small Communities' Information and Lack of Participation Many of the documents reviewed highlighted the lack of objective, comprehensive and publicly available information about the actual energy needs of communities, the adequacy of current levels of energy service in remote systems, the potential benefits of increasing access to clean energy, and the comparative costs of different resource alter. [...] The recently announced initiatives, such as the recovery of the Amazon Fund, the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAM), new LpT and Energias da Amazônia may trigger some of the essential activities.