ONS’s Institutional Relationship

Due to the continuation of unfavorable hydrological conditions that affected the electric power supply, ONS, in 2015,reinforced its institutional relationship with the society aiming at keeping it permanently informed on the most relevant issues related to the operation of the BIPS.

In the Electric Power Sector Monitoring Committee, the articulation with the Ministry of Mines and Energy and ANEELfacilitated solutions to ensure the security of electric power supply at the lowest cost. .

In 2015, ONS took part in several events, which reinforced the relationship with specific segments of the external public:

• Secure and EconomicOperation of the Brazilian Interconnected Power System: ONS’s Challenge. Presentation to the Minister of Mines and Energy, in Brasilia, on January 8th.
• Secure and Economic Operation of the Brazilian Interconnected Power System: ONS’s Challenge. Presentation to the School of Public Policies and Government Management, in Rio de Janeiro on January14th.
• Assessment on the BIPS’s Electrical Energy Supply Conditions - 2015. Lecture at the 2015 Supply event, organized by Canal Energia, in Rio de Janeiro on March19th.
• Paraiba do Sul River Basin Storage and Hydrologic Conditions: 2014-2015. Presentation at Public Hearing with the Federal Public Ministry - RJ, in Rio de Janeiro on March11th.
• Water Scarcity: actions, lessons and perspectives. Lecture at the 91st meeting of the National Industry Confederation’sCOEMA,in Brasilia, on March 25th.
• Assessment on the BIPS’s Electrical Energy Supply Conditions - 2015.Presentation at the Permanent Joint Committee on Climate Changes of the Federal Senate, in Brasilia, on March 26th.
• ONS’s Short and Long Term Vision. Lecture at the seminar “The New Configuration of the Brazilian Electric Matrix”, organized by FIRJAN, in Rio de Janeiro on March27th.
• SupplyConditions and Challenges for the BIPS’s operation. Lecture at theEvent “Generation Strategic Reflection”, organized by ENEL in Niteroi, on April 7th.
• ONS’s Challenges for the BIPS’s Operation. Presentation at the workshop “CEEE and the Electric Power Sector Strategic Perception”, in Porto Alegre, on April 8th.
• SupplyConditions and Challenges for the BIPS’s operation. Lecture in the third edition of the event “Energy in Focus”, organized by AES Tietê in São Paulo, on April 16th.
• Adequacy of the BIPS’s operation face to the Distributed Generation. Lecture at Forum COGEN / Channel Energy on Cogeneration and Distributed Generation.
• Brazilian Thermoelectric Sector Structured Planning – ONS’s vision. Presentation at the 2nd Thermoelectric Generation Forum - Scenarios 2015, in Rio de Janeiro, on May18th.
• SupplyConditions and Challenges for the BIPS’s operation. Presentation to ABRADEE’sCouncil, in Brasilia, on May 20th.
• Brazilian Electric PowerSystem’s Operation and Security. Lecture at the 4th Course on the Electric Power Sector for the Judiciary, organized by CCEE and MNE / AMB, in Brasilia, on May22th.
• SupplyConditions and Challenges for the BIPS’s operation. Presentation at the 12th National Meeting of the Electric Power Sector’sAgents, organized by Canal Energia, in Rio de Janeiro, on May28th.
• ONS and the BIPS’s operation. Presentation at ANEEL’s technical visit and the Federal Public Ministry, in Brasilia, on June 11th.
• Assessment on the BIPS’s Electrical Energy Supply Conditions.Presentation to Banco Santander, in Rio de Janeiro, on July 23th.
• BIPS Supply Guarantee: Short (2015/16) and Medium (2017/19) TermVisions. Lecture at Getúlio Vargas Foundation, in Rio de Janeiro, on August17th.
• Integration of Wind and Solar Generation in the Brazilian Power System. Lecture at the French-Brazilian Seminar on Energy, organized by the Embassy of France, in Rio de Janeiro, on August31st.
• The National Generation and TransmissionScenario. Lecture at the 12th Brazil Energy and Power, in Rio de Janeiro, on September21st.
• São Francisco River Basin Storage and Hydrologic Conditions. Presentation at the Permanent Joint Committee on Climate Change of the Federal Senate’sPublic Hearing,in Brasilia, on October15th.
• Short and MidTerm Scenarios and Challenges for the operation of the BIPS. Lecture at the opening session of the XXIII National Seminar on Electric Power Production and Transmission, in Foz do Iguaçu, on October19th.
• Short and MidTerm Scenarios and Challenges for the operation of the BIPS. Lecture at the National Forum of State Secretaries of Mines and Energy, in Goiânia, on December 1st.
• Short and MidTerm Scenarios and Challenges for the operation of the BIPS. Lecture at a CTEEP internal event, in São Paulo, on December18th.

Due to the continuing shortage of water resources in 2015, there was an intense relationship with the media, both through interviews with the General Director, as well as with the explanations provided by the communications team. ONS was quoted in a total of 1,549 articles published in print in the year, with a percentage of favorable exposure of 91%.

ONS’s website remained as an important tool for the dissemination of technical activities and relationship with the Internet users.

The Institutional Visitation Program enabled students, technicians of the sector and other national and foreign visitors to better acquainted with ONS’sactivities regarding the centralized operation of the BIPS. At the System National Operation Center, in Brasilia, 13 visits were conducted, with 209 visitors. At theSoutheastern Regional Operation Center, in Rio de Janeiro, there were 21 technical visits, totaling 206 visitors. In Florianopolis, there were 19 technical visits in the year, with about 163 visitors. In Recife, there were about 120 participants in eleven visits, highlighting the presence of the Mines and Energy Minister in the Control Room of COSR-NE, on July 3rd.

The development of joint activities with CCEE and EPE was continued, as what have been established in the respective Operating Agreements.