Tarcísio defends the intervention at Enel, after 2.2 million properties were left without electricity in SP | Brazil

As of Thursday morning (11), at least 1.4 million homes were still without electricity.

“If the company generates money, the intervention works because the responder takes the money, carries out the work and solves the problem. Sometimes the emergency plan does not work,” said Tarcísio, after participating in a government event for the delivery of housing, in Carapicuíba, in the metropolitan region.

The governor complained about the speed of power restoration and pointed to problems with the company’s emergency plan, which failed to resolve the problems. “That’s why we were very critical of the contract extension,” he said. Tarcísio said the next contract should provide for the division of the metropolitan region into two parts. “In a smaller area, it is easier to make investments. »

Tarcísio linked the state’s lack of energy to the federal government’s actions, said he had alerted the regulatory agency to Enel’s problems and said São Paulo was at a “crossroads.”

“The state government is at a crossroads. We do not own the contract. We do not have the jurisdiction, which is federal. The jurisdiction for electricity and distribution is federal, it is in the Ministry of Mines and Energy, in the regulatory agency, in Aneel. We are trying to provide as many grants and suggestions as possible,” he told reporters. “It is very difficult for us to do anything other than what we have been warning about for a long time. We have a situation in a contract that is federal, it is in the Ministry of Mines and Energy, which has federal regulations, which is the responsibility of the National Electric Energy Agency. What have we said during this time? It is an old contract, which has a certain ease in achieving indicators, we need a lot of investment to automate the network,” he said, going on to defend measures like contract expiration and federal intervention.

The technical area of ​​the Federal Court of Auditors (TCU) recommended that the National Electric Energy Agency (Aneel) evaluate the possibility of intervening at Enel São Paulo.

The mayor of the capital, Ricardo Nunes (MDB), also criticized Enel’s actions in the city. Next to a fallen tree in Vila Mariana, a neighborhood in the southern zone, the mayor spoke of the more than 30-hour delay Enel took in cutting off the electricity to remove the tree. “Enel said it had 1,500 crews (in operation) and we can say categorically that that is not true. If it had 1,500 crews, we would not be in different places waiting for Enel to cut off the power (to remove the trees),” he said.

“These are still days of great suffering with Enel,” Nunes said, noting that as of Thursday afternoon, more than 1.1 million properties – and about 4 million people – were still without power. “In addition to not having a team on the streets, there is no administrative infrastructure, there is no structure so that Enel can serve not only the city of São Paulo, but also the 24 municipalities where they operate,” he said.

Enel was contacted for the report, but has not yet commented.