The Agency’s Remit

Board of Directors

Board of Directors (DIR): It is responsible for analysing, discussing and deciding on matters within the remit of the authority, as set out in Articles 8, 9 and 10 of Decree No. 2,335 of 6 October 1997. The functions of ANEEL’s Board of Directors are established in Article 4 of ANEEL’s Internal Regulations, approved by ANEEL Ordinance No. 6,980 of 16 June 2025.

Control and Management Advisory

The advisory support is provided by the following units:

• Advisory Office (ASD): The advisers are responsible for providing technical advisory support to the Board of Directors, as a collegiate body, and to the individual Directors to whom they report directly, in matters relating to the Agency’s areas of competence; coordinating, guiding, supervising and managing the activities assigned by the Directors; ensuring the proper processing of administrative proceedings; drafting and submitting to the respective rapporteurs draft opinions or single member decisions, as applicable, as well as the corresponding decision-making acts relating to administrative appeals and requests for reconsideration, annulment or review filed against decisions issued by representatives of ANEEL or by partner State Regulatory Agencies; reviewing and/or supplementing draft opinions and the respective decision-making acts produced by organisational units in all matters falling within the exclusive competence of ANEEL’s Board of Directors; and chairing, coordinating and/or participating in commissions, committees or working groups aimed at the development of the Agency’s processes or activities.
• Executive Board Institutional Communications Office (ASI): Responsible for managing ANEEL’s institutional image, it coordinates the Agency’s public relations projects and campaigns with a focus on its key stakeholders. It oversees press relations, parliamentary relations, international relations, institutional relations, protocol, decentralization governance, and the monitoring of management contracts.
• Office of the Director-General (GDG): The GDG, headed by the Chief of Staff, is responsible for providing administrative support and advice to the Director-General; organizing the Director-General’s schedule and correspondence, as well as monitoring matters of interest to him or her; and coordinating activities related to planning, strategic management, and the improvement of the management model.
• Federal Attorney’s Office at ANEEL (PF): The Federal Attorney’s Office at ANEEL is an agency under the Office of the Attorney General of the Union (AGU), with jurisdiction established by Complementary Law No. 73/1993, Law No. 10,480/2002, and ANEEL’s Internal Regulations, approved by MME Ordinance No. 349 of November 28, 1997. Its duties include the judicial and extrajudicial representation of the Agency, as well as the provision of legal counsel.
• General Secretary (SGE): Responsible for managing the General Registry, organising Board Meetings, and reviewing and publishing administrative acts in the Official Gazette.

Control and management are carried out by the following organisational units:

• Internal Audit (AIN): Provides support to ANEEL’s Executive Board by auditing the quality of internal processes and administrative, financial and asset management; acting as the institutional interface with regulatory bodies by providing information and supporting the audits they carry out; and coordinating the preparation of the Agency’s Annual Ordinary Financial Statement, as well as issuing a preliminary opinion on the Agency’s Annual Ordinary Financial Statement and on special audits. It also monitors the Executive Board’s directives and recommendations to the Organisational Units and coordinates the implementation of Risk Management at ANEEL.
• Internal Affairs Division (CGR): Responsible for formulating policies, guidelines, planning internal affairs activities and establishing internal affairs procedures. It investigates administrative irregularities committed by public officials in the performance of their duties at ANEEL, and the administrative liability of legal entities arising from acts harmful to ANEEL, through admissibility assessments, the initiation and conduct of preliminary investigations, disciplinary administrative proceedings and administrative liability proceedings. It proposes and enters into conduct adjustment agreements.
• Ombudsman’s Office (OUV): Receives and handles complaints, reports, suggestions, compliments and other feedback from users of public services, civil servants and other ANEEL staff. It monitors the internal process for investigating reports and complaints from users regarding the Agency’s activities. Analyses data received or collected in order to produce information aimed at improving service delivery and rectifying shortcomings. Ensures compliance with legislation relating to access to and protection of information. Ensures the adequacy, timeliness and quality of the information contained in the Service Charter. Ensures the participation, protection and defence of the rights of public service users. Adopts means of peaceful conflict resolution between public service users and ANEEL, as well as between public officials internally, with the aim of improving dialogue between the parties and making conflict resolution more effective. Prepares the action plan and the annual management report.

Economic regulation of the market and promotion of competition

• Superintendence of Tariff Management and Economic Regulation (STR): It is responsible for regulating the economic clauses of contracts for public services relating to the distribution, transmission and generation of electricity; establishing revenues and tariff adjustments and reviews for regulated public services; set electricity tariffs (TE), distribution system usage tariffs (TUSD) and transmission system usage tariffs (TUST); establish and monitor sectoral charges and tariff policies defined by law; assess the economic and financial balance of regulated public services; monitor and evaluate the results of incentive-based regulation, tariffs and the electricity market.

Societal relations

• Superintendence of Administrative Mediation and Consumer Relations (SMA): It is responsible for the ultimate task of resolving, through administrative channels, disputes between entities in the electricity sector and between them and their consumers, as established by Law No. 9,427/1996. To this end, it coordinates ANEEL’s Sectoral Ombudsman’s Office, conducts an annual survey to determine the ANEEL Consumer Satisfaction Index (IASC), and coordinates the processes of public hearings, consultations and the gathering of input, which enable ANEEL to gather feedback and information from the public on regulatory matters under review. It also conducts the administrative mediation process to assist in the resolution of commercial or contractual disputes between agents in the electricity sector or between them and their consumers in disputes where the subject matter is not entirely regulated.

Concessions and management of hydropower potential

• Superintendence of Concessions, Permits and Authorisations for Electricity Services (SCE): It is responsible for approving inventory studies, economic feasibility studies and projects for hydroelectric power stations. It issues authorisations for generation services; authorisations for transmission services and facilities, including those intended to provide consumer units with access to the Basic Grid; authorisations for distribution services and facilities; authorisations for facilities intended for the import and export of electricity; and authorisations for trading activities. It manages the granting of concessions, permits and authorisations for generation, transmission and distribution services; the management of financial compensation and royalties for the use of water resources; the management and enforcement of financial guarantees; the preliminary technical and economic assessment for tender processes for the award of transmission and distribution concessions; the technical and economic assessment of additional revenue streams and authorisations for upgrades and improvements; and the registration of small-scale power stations.
• Auction Secretariat (SEL): This unit is responsible for coordinating tender processes for the procurement of electricity, the awarding of concessions, and the granting of authorisations for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, in accordance with the guidelines of the Granting Authority. Bidding processes are conducted by the Special Bidding Commission (CEL), composed exclusively of SEL staff, with technical and administrative support for the preparation of tender notices; monitoring of timetables; drafting of terms of reference for the procurement of services necessary for the conduct of auctions; and management of bid bonds offered in the tenders.

Inspection of electricity services and installations

• Superintendence for Technical Inspection of Electricity Services (SFT): responsible for monitoring and inspecting, through preventive, advisory or corrective measures, the services and facilities involved in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, with a view to ensuring regulatory compliance by sector operators; and the supervision of entities responsible for system operation, the sale of electricity and hydroelectric projects with regard to dam safety.
• Superintendence of Economic, Financial and Market Oversight (SFF): responsible for monitoring and overseeing, through preventive, advisory or corrective measures, the economic, financial and accounting aspects of concessions, permits and authorisations; monitoring the market practices of operators in the electricity sector, with a focus on analysing competition and economic concentration; standardisation, prior and ex-post control of operations involving the divestment of assets between related parties, transfers of corporate control and amendments to articles of association; validation of costs for tariff proceedings or in compliance with regulatory requirements; supervision of the management of sectoral charges and funds, including the setting of quotas for the Global Reversion Reserve (RGR); standardisation of accounting and asset management procedures relating to the electricity sector; monitoring and supervision of the economic and financial aspects of the entities responsible for system operation, the sale of electricity and the management of resources derived from sectoral charges.

Technical regulations and service standards

• Superintendence for the Regulation of Electricity Transmission and Distribution Services (STD): Responsible for regulating the technical and commercial aspects of electricity transmission and distribution services; establishing rules and procedures relating to the provision of transmission and distribution services; supervising access to systems and connection to facilities; regulating the operation of the National Interconnected System (SIN); introducing new resources and technologies, including distributed energy resources; ensuring the adequacy, safety and user satisfaction with services; universalising access to electricity and implementing benefit policies, including the Social Electricity Tariff.
• Superintendence for the Regulation of Electricity Generation Services and the Electricity Market (SGM): Regulates electricity generation services and facilities; regulates the planning and scheduling of operations within the National Interconnected System (SIN) and isolated systems; establishes rules and procedures for the trading of electricity; and regulates the proper, safe and liquid functioning of operations within market environments.
• Secretariat for Innovation and Energy Transition (STE): It is responsible for regulating funds allocated to investments in Research, Development and Innovation (PDI) and Energy Efficiency (EE) projects, programmes and portfolios within the electricity sector; monitoring and evaluating the implementation and outcomes of the PDI and PEE programmes, as well as managing the products, solutions and services arising from these programmes; to promote communication and dissemination of the R&D and Energy Efficiency Programmes regulated by ANEEL and of the Energy Transition; to promote innovation, prospecting and the acquisition of new technological solutions, products and services for the efficient and sustainable use of electricity, as well as strategic themes and objectives related to R&D, EE and Energy Transition; and monitor the development of sectoral policy for the energy transition and promote the dissemination within ANEEL’s organisational units of topics relevant to the regulation of the electricity sector.

Planning and administrative management

• Superintendence of Administrative, Financial and Procurement Management (SGA): Responsible for planning and monitoring the procurement plan; conducting tenders or direct awards for the purchase or disposal of assets, the execution of works and the provision of services; monitoring contracts resulting from tender procedures and direct awards; conducting investigations into administrative liability relating to tenders and administrative contracts; analysing, drafting and monitoring terms and agreements, amendments, decentralised implementation and similar arrangements entered into by the Agency; drafting the budget proposal; ANEEL’s budgetary and financial planning and execution; control of revenue collection and management of defaults; accounting management and documentary compliance; management of logistical resources, including access control and security; maintenance of building facilities, building works, general services, and administration of fixed and consumable assets.
• Human Resources Directorate (SGP): This unit is responsible for implementing human resources policies and practices, balancing institutional and individual interests, in order to foster staff development and commitment and to help ANEEL achieve its mission.
• Superintendence of Technical Information Management (SGI): Responsible for providing information technology solutions to support ANEEL’s mission. Among other related activities, it facilitates geoprocessing, information management, infrastructure, information security and planning (PDTI).