ENERGY TRADING CONTRACTS IN BRAZIL: A STUDY ON CONTRACTING MODALITIES AND VIRTUAL TRADING ENVIRONMENTS

Abstract

When considering energy negotiations from the perspective of the Brazilian Electricity Sector, it is unquestionable that the different types of contracts agreed bilaterally between institutional sector agents play an essential role in the good practices recommended by ANEEL and the negotiation standards applied by CCEE. Thus, the main objective of this study was to discuss the main forms of energy contracting in the context of virtual contracting environments, whose contribution has the potential both to describe, through data analysis, the recent scenario of the evolution of this negotiation methodology in light of the three-year period from 2023 to 2025, and to scientific dissemination since the article in question was linked to the research Free Energy Market: challenges and regulatory advances in Brazil, which was financed by CNPq. Finally, using data visualization methods such as the ggplot2 library, written in R, a significant growth was observed in free-market energy commercialization contracts, that is, those contracts agreed upon in an unregulated manner between the different agents in the electricity sector, followed by commercialization contracts regulated by quantity, that is, the contractual modality that implies the tacit acceptance by energy generators of the hydrological risk in the face of possible unfavorable hydrology during the contractual term.