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To: Jurgis Bekepuris who wrote (32023)	9/17/2008 11:52:35 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78748

I'm from Parana state. The ELP guys live like monkeys on top of the poles extending the grid wherever I go here in Curitiba.

To: Jurgis Bekepuris who wrote (32023)	9/17/2008 12:00:05 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 78748

Copel clarifies the interested parties in establishing partnership in new small hydroplants (This is a machine translation!!!!!.) [08-09-2008] Copel in the next Wednesday (10), in Curitiba, open meeting to all the interested parties in establishing partnerships with the state one, aiming at the construction of small hydroplants (PCHs in Portuguese) in the Paraná. The meeting is a chance so that the doubts around the proclamation of Public Call are clarified all, launched recently for the Copel. In the proclamation, the company places to the market its disposal to associate mainly with other investors, to construct and to operate a set of PCHs until the limit of 300 mW (megawatts) of installed power - the sufficient to take care of to the consumption of a city with 800 a thousand inhabitants. For definition, PCHs is exploitations with at least 1 mW and in 30 maximum megawatts of power. For the estimates of the Close-woven part of a fishing net, the investments foreseen for the implementation of the 300 established mW of joint power as limit in the Public Call are of R$ 1,2 billion. The meeting of clarifications will have place in the audience of the Administrative Polar region of the Copel, in the Mossunguê quarter - Highway BR-277, km 3 - with beginning to 14h. The complete one of the proclamation of public call for the election of projects of small hidrelétricas central offices is available in the address of the Copel in the Internet (www.copel.com). STATED PERIODS - the companies interested in constituting partnerships with the Copel will have to present a basic project of the PCH to be installed in the Paraná and that already she has authorization grant (conditional or not), in phase of authorization grant or analysis for the National Agency of Electric Energy (Aneel). Currently, they exist about 80 projects of PCHs in the Paraná - that they add 900 mW of power approximately - with possibility taking care of to these requirements. The stated period for the delivery of the documentation for the interested parties finishes in day 10 of October and the Copel will go to divulge the projects approved until day 18 of December. MAJORITÁRIA - Each enterprise selected for the Copel will be implanted by means of on purpose specific society (SPE), that it will have the state one as shareholding majoritária, in attendance to the state legislation, and whose constitution will have to be approved by the State legislature of the Paraná. Beyond arriving in port capitals in the ratio of its participation in each project, the Copel has to offer to the future partners a wide tradition of knowledge technician in the engineering of hidroelectric exploitations e, over all, solids commitments with the sustentabilidade, that assure the total seriousness in the treatment of decurrent the social matters and ambient of the implantation of the enterprise. The construction of hidroelectric exploitations of small transport in Brazil is stimulated by a series of benefits that become this type of sufficiently attractive enterprise of the economic point of view. The PCHs has right, for example, the discountings of at least 50% in the tariffs of use of the systems of transmission and distribution of energy (TUST and TUSD). They also are exempt of the payment of the Financial Compensation for the Use of Hídricos Resources and of the Use of Public good.