Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexander SilveraHe said on Tuesday (13), In the Mines and Energy Committee of the ChamberAnd who will not be the “father of the most expensive energy bill in the world”. Silveira commented on the subsidies paid through energy tariffs. “I will not be the father of the most expensive energy bill in the world. We are already among the most expensive, and I will not be the father of the most expensive. I will not come out with this title,” the minister declared.
“We need to find other sources of funding for the Republican interests that we have to continue to stimulate the country’s energy matrix. We have already made the energy transition. The country can now be proud of its matrix. We do not have to continue to burden the national economy with this cost and the energy bill of the consumer.”
According to Silveira, it is necessary to look for financing alternatives to public policies that encourage sectors of the economy, such as discounts granted to renewable energy sources, which represent one of the largest subsidies on the electricity bill.
On Tuesday (13), the Minister will speak about the public policies developed in the sectors of electricity, oil, natural gas, biofuels, minerals and energy transition. The meeting at the college started at around 10 am.
