The realization of the World Cup 2014 in Brazil involves various sectors of the economy and public and private management, requiring the planning of its infrastructure and coordination of its logistics in order to ensure its successful performance.

Based on resolution of the Power Sector Monitoring Committee (CMSE), MME coordinates a working group created in 2010, consisting of eight task forces. Coordinated by EPE and ONS, these task forces are responsible for drawing up na Action Plan with measures necessary to ensure the energy supply to the cities where events will take place during World Cup 2014.

In 2011, the task forces conducted an assessment of the performance of supply systems for the host cities, considering the works already covered by 2014 planning and the conventional expansion criteria used by the power sector.  

A specific workshop for load forecasting was held, as long as this is essential information for evaluating the electric performance of the system. On that occasion, the experience of other countries that had hosted the World Cup with respect to the impact of the event in power demand was analyzed. Different demand scenarios were also evaluated, considering the expected increase in socioeconomic activities due to higher occupancy of the hotel network in the cities during the period of the games.

Due to the worldwide impact of World Cup, analyzes and evaluations were performed with different criteria to ensure greater security for energy supply to the cities involved, including supporting multiple contingencies. In order to assist this situation, some operational measures were prioritized, including thermal dispatch. Taking into account an economic evaluation, it was decided that only the cities of São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba will have reinforcements on their grids. It should be noted that it was considered an extended analysis horizon in order to ensure that the solutions suggested were consistent with medium and long term evolution of the system
To achieve this level of differentiated security, it was proposed a set of operational measures, focusing on power operation programming, which must be consolidated until 2013 in order to provide the most suitable operating conditions to the system during the World Cup.

In July 2011 it was prepared a Summary Report of the activities of the task forces, containing the set of works considered strategic to ensure the conditions of service desirable for each host city, whose implementation will be monitored in a special way by MME.

As a result the work of the task forces, an Action Plan sets out measures to be adopted by MME, ANEEL, State Departments, ONS and the generation, transmission and distribution companies, so that the works that comprise the basic grid, installations located in the border grid, other transmission facilities, the distribution grid and the works of the Systemic Interest Modernization Plan can be completed within the deadlines.