2014 World Cup

Aiming at adapting the power system for the World Cup 2014, it was approved in the Power System Monitoring Committee, in February 2012, the report "Summary of activities of Task Forces", containing the set of works considered strategic to ensure conditions of service desired for each host city. Since then, the Department for the Monitoring of the Power System (DMSE), started to follow all the building sites mentioned in this document.

Throughout 2012 and 2013, DMSE held meetings sectored in the host capitals, involving besides ONS, EPE, transmission companies, distribution companies and sectors of municipal and state administration. Likewise, ONS through the GTs supply to the states, also accompanied these schedules, aiming to define the operative actions to be implemented to guarantee the supply to the host cities. On these occasions, we sought the commitment of several organizations and public agencies to overcome the difficulties encountered in the implementation of building sites considered strategic for the 2014 World Cup process. 

Since the approval of the Synthesis Report, the GT-2014 World Cup also held general meetings involving representatives of all capitals, at every six months to ensure the alignment of actions and the monitoring and evaluation of schedules established for each building site.

In early 2013, ONS prepared an specific work for the Confederations Cup, with the detailed analysis of the conditions of service to metropolitan regions associated with local realization of events. This aimed to make a diagnosis of the operative conditions of supply to the respective areas as well as to list a set of actions to be performed in the transmission system, to ensure a supply of energy during the event with different safety standards, as adopted in national elections, Carnival and Christmas. The work primarily focused on the existing system between the substations of the Basic Network and the stadiums where the games were held.

In July 2013, ONS prepared the document "relevant facilities for the electrical safety of the state capitals that are going to host the Fifa World Cup 2014 Installations".

This paper classified the Basic Network facilities considered strategic for BIPS, according to their level of impact on the system. Beyond those substations considered strategic were also listed, among other basic network, those with influence on energy supply to these host cities that presented some risk to supply.

Several of these projects have had their licenses defined and entered into the implementation phase. However, for some works in the Basic Network and the Border Network there is a risk of compromising the periods considered in FT Synthesis Report of the 2014 World Cup The revision issued in July 2013 pointed out the main impacts on the possible delay of the proposed works. However, it was necessary to make a detailed assessment of system performance with works effectively in operation during the event and considering the latest load forecasts.

It was initiated in late 2013, a diagnosis identifying possible actions to be performed until the FIFA World Cup 2014 to ensure the supply of electricity to all the host cities with different safety standards. This diagnosis was made considering the works scheduled to be completed by May 2014. The necessary actions were also identified, such as additional thermal generation, energy constraints and adjustments and / or new Special Protection Systems (EPS), for the host cities to have their main cargoes preserved in situations of simple loss and to ensure especial performance in situations of double losses as well. Furthermore, the actions and additional safety measures for the operation of the BIPS during the games of the World Cup 2014 were identified.

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