Improvement of Surveillance Process Applied to Continuity Indicators of the Energy Distributors

The National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL), created in 1996, is responsible for regulating and supervising the Brazilian electricity sector. In case of non-compliance with the current regulation, the ANEEL initiates the instruction of the punitive process and may apply a punishment to the regulated agent. In this context, to improve the current regulation, an additional form of penalty is proposed, which takes into account the amount of sanctions applied to continuity indicator inspections in the last four years when defining the new limits of continuity indicators. In this way, the distributors with the highest number of penalties will have their limits reduced, that is, they will be more penalized. To analyze the improvement proposed the electrical assemblies belonging to the concession area of a small distributor was considered.