Daylight saving time and tariffs: what needs to change?
Brazil will resume daylight saving time. A wise (technical) decision that is in line with what a list of countries around the world have been doing for many years.
It would be desirable for the agencies – in the electricity sector (ANEEL, EPE, ONS, CCEE and MMME) – to take advantage of the opportunity to resize our schedules (peak and off-peak).
The importance of solar and wind sources in our matrix has brought new challenges, as they are intermittent.
It has already been discovered how these sources vary throughout the day and the seasons.
It would be more than desirable for the time segments (peak and off-peak) and their respective tariffs (especially the wire fees) to be resized. Perhaps even incorporating an “intermediate” segment between peak and off-peak.
And so the new sizing would be more closely adjusted to what happens in the consumption profile, benefiting everyone involved in the production chain of the electricity sector. This would avoid the current “mismatch” between what is happening and the rates charged.
Will our leaders take the initiative?
