{"id":195218,"date":"2018-06-01T13:28:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T16:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=195218"},"modified":"2018-06-01T16:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T18:03:51","slug":"bill-paves-way-sale-eletrobras-power-distributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/bill-paves-way-sale-eletrobras-power-distributors\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill paves way for sale of Eletrobras power distributors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 This Friday (1<sup>st<\/sup>), a notice was included in the Federal Gazette stating that the Brazilian federal government submitted a bill to the National Congress that paves the way for the sale of six of state-run power utility Eletrobras\u2019 distribution subsidiaries in the country\u2019s North and Northeast.<\/p>\n<p>Eletrobras \u2013 Centrais El\u00e9tricas Brasileiras S.A. \u2013 is a holding company comprising several generation, transmission and distribution businesses. It coordinates electric power distribution in Brazil, its majority stakeholder being the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>The bill\u2019s submission to Congress is the second attempt by the government to advance the sales. Last month, Chamber of Deputies president Rodrigo Maia (from the Rio de Janeiro chapter of the DEM party), withdrew Provisional Measure 814\/17, which altered electric sector laws, from the Chamber\u2019s agenda, on grounds of disagreements among representatives regarding the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The new bill is expected to incorporate the key points of Provisional Measure 814\/17, but the inclusion of Eletrobras itself in the national privatizations program (Programa Nacional de Desestatiza\u00e7\u00f5es &#8211; PND) \u2013 the point most criticized by representatives \u2013 should be left out this time around.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brazilian federal government proposed a law to the National Congress whereby private sector players will be allowed to buy six of state-run power utility Eletrobras\u2019 distribution subsidiaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":195210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[3041,3036,34179,10792,3040,3042],"class_list":{"0":"post-195218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-bill","9":"tag-eletrobras","10":"tag-energia-en","11":"tag-energia-eletrica-ar","12":"tag-power-distribution","13":"tag-privatization"},"wps_subtitle":"The Brazilian federal government proposed a law to the National Congress whereby private sector players will be allowed to buy six of state-run power utility Eletrobras\u2019 distribution subsidiaries.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}