Resumo:
Using an economic model of the electricity market (TAROT - Optimized Tariff) that represents
the regulated market of distribution of electrical energy, this theses presents an
evaluation of public policies for fare social tariffs of electricity in Brazil. It was considered
the scenario of increasing number of prosumers (residential consumers who have self
generation of electricity) in 2 of the 5 major regions of Brazil. The Brazilian regions have
very different socioeconomic characteristics. However, the current electricity regulation is
the same for all concessionaires. Because of the ineffectiveness of the existing tariff policy
discount, in this work a new public policy is proposed, allowing the use of regulation in
a different way in order to obtain the best result for Brazil and particularly for the poor
population that today are not able to enjoy the benefits of electricity due to high tariff
values. It is also discussed how this can contribute in a positive way to improve the income
distribution in these regions, which is evaluated by using the Gini index.
