Electricity consumption drops 0.7% in January, says CCEE

National consumption of electricity fell by 0.7% in January compared to the same month in 2021, due to lower demand from the captive market (ACR), served by distributors. The data were released this Thursday (17) by the Electric Energy Commercialization Chamber (CCEE).

The country demanded an average of 66,751 megawatts (MW) of energy in the month of January. The captive market, the most representative, used 44,228 average MW, a decrease of 3.2% in the annual comparison.

In the free market (ACL), which supplies industry and large companies, consumption reached an average of 22,522 MW, up 4.7%.

The CCEE monitors two factors that influence the behavior of demand in the captive market: the migration of consumers to the free environment and the distributed generation of energy, which reduces the demand of the National Interconnected System (SIN).

According to the institution, disregarding the migration of consumers between markets in the last 12 months, the reduction in consumption in the ACR would be smaller in January, of 1.4%. In the ACL, there would be an advance of 0.8%.

In the case of distributed generation, if there were no such segment, the reduction in consumption in the ACR would be smaller, 1.9%.

Power generation

In January, hydroelectric plants increased their generation by 11%, as a result of the favorable hydrological scenario in recent weeks. Consequently, thermal plants had a smaller share, with a reduction of 27% in the annual comparison.

The good solar incidence in the regions where the photovoltaic plants are located contributed to an advance of 60.9% in the generation of this type of energy in the month. Wind farms produced 17.4% less energy.

Source: CNN Brasil

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