 Environmental licensing for transmission systems and electricity sector planning in BrazilRicardo Abranches Felix Cardoso and Alessandra Schwertner Hoffmann Energy Policy, 2019, vol. 132, issue C, 1155-1162 Abstract: The electricity sector planning in Brazil aims to promote a reliable and safe supply of electricity to society. There are risks associated with planning out these projects in regard to environmental licensing (particularly with Transmission Systems). This paper presents a conceptual model for a solid analysis of the electricity sector by providing a regulatory and procedural assessment; it aims to connect issues with environmental licenses to those ventures. The results show that delays and uncertainties are related to the concession of energy transmission projects, which have not conducted any previous studies on the possible environmental impacts and have not applied the Environmental Impact Assessment as an instrument for decision-making. In order to minimize these uncertainties, studies on environmental planning should be conducted in the early stages of the project, prior to concession, as the venture is granted only once the projects have been demonstrated to be environmental viable. Keywords: Environmental licensing; Brazilian electricity sector; Planning (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:enepol:v:132:y:2019:i:c:p:1155-1162 DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.06.018 Access Statistics for this article Energy Policy is currently edited by N. France More articles in Energy Policy from Elsevier |
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