The electric energy vector assumes significant importance in the process of the Amazon
integration to the national development. The electric energy support on this region, reaches a
high priority level among the constitutional objectives on reduction the regional differences
(FROTA, 2004). In the Amazon state, it can be stated that the lack of energy is a fact that
decreases the regional development, and in many locations, smaller and more isolated, a
factor of social, economic and cultural marginalization. The historical situation of the
increasing use of fuel derived petroleum to the power generation in the Amazon state brings
huge economic and environmental damage to the Brazilian society, and it has to be solved by
the energetic Brazilian planning organ, by imposing the need of reaching other cleaner, safer
and less expensive sources. The state is different from other regions of the country due to the
existence of several isolated systems, mainly from its capital, Manaus, that shows low
reliability and quality in its energy service, adding to that the high cost, considering the need
of thermal diesel and oil generation, their amount represents about 73% of all fuel that have to
be used in Brazil to thermoelectric power generation (GTON, 2009), having a final cost of 3
billions (US$ 1.5 billion) which is supported, most of it, by the sources transferences obtained
through the subsidies of the Consumption Account of Fossil Fuels - CCC. Having this in
mind, this assignment has as objective to present an approach of the mainly existing
problems, as well as a proposal of structural solution for the energy business to the Amazon
state, that can contribute to the improvement of the principles that rule, the compatible
energetic politics with the goals of the updated institutional model of the Brazilian electric
sector, giving birth to a new cycle of development and growing to the Amazon state and to the
Amazon region.
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