The City of São Paulo is taking legal action against the renewal of the contract with Enel.
Ricardo Nunes' administration questions the concessionaire's performance and cites failures in restoring power after rains.
247 - The City of São Paulo has filed a request with the Federal Court to prevent Aneel (National Electric Energy Agency) from renewing Enel's concession in the metropolitan region. The measure comes after the blackouts recorded last Monday (22), when heavy rains and winds left hundreds of thousands of residents without power.
According to a report published by FSP, the Municipal Attorney General’s Office (PGM) filed, on Saturday (27), a request for an injunction in a public civil action brought against the Union, Aneel and Enel itself. The current contract ends in 2028, but Aneel’s technical area had already concluded that the company met the requirements to have its concession extended.
The city government argues that, in authorizing the extension of the contract with Enel, Aneel “has been guided by an excessively formalistic and lenient interpretation, which disregards the reality of service provision and the multiple indicators of disinvestment and inefficiency on the part of the concessionaire.”
According to the administration of Ricardo Nunes (MDB), approximately 580 properties were affected by power outages in São Paulo, according to a report from the São Paulo State Public Services Regulatory Agency (Arsesp).
The city hall states that, as of 22 PM on the 22nd, only 31% of the affected units had their power restored. Other concessionaires operating in the state had already normalized more than half of their service during the same period.
The PGM also highlighted cases of long delays: "In the Perus district, the Subprefecture recorded an average response time of 42 hours for requests submitted to the concessionaire, with some areas without power for more than two full days," says the filed document.
