A Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica: conflitos e acordos na história da regulação do setor elétrico brasileiro

Abstract

This study aims to portray the main regulatory measures during Brazilian’s electrical sector history, such as the emergence of the National Agency of Power (ANEEL), doing so by identifying which groups of the civil society were ahead such measures and their ranks within the State itself. In order to identify, in a broad sense, the factors that had interfered along the history course of the electrical sector and the subsequent creation of ANEEL, the research provides the context of that process in the political and economic scenarios, both worldwide and nationally, at their different moments. Following this course of the research, critical analyses coordinated with Antonio Gramsci’s concepts of State and civil society were used to set the political profile of the studied historical process. At the end, evidence is that both in the course of the electrical sector’s regulation, and in ANEEL’s creation events, political society and civil society merged themselves with “bonds” that allows one to visualize more fully Gramsci’s concept of amplified State. Thus, it was possible to understand that the spaces belonging this universe were essentially in the presence of specific sectors of society and not the society as a whole, as declared by the ideologues of these new spaces.