This report was co-ordinated and drafted by Alexis Durand and Vincent van Langen, under the guidance of Anna Pietikainen. It was prepared under the leadership and with the encouragement and support of Elsa Pilichowski, Director, János Bertók, Deputy Director, OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV), and of Nick Malyshev, Head of the Regulatory Policy Division, GOV. Substantive comments were provided by Nick Malyshev, Manuel Flores Romero, James Drummond and Gloriana Madrigal of GOV. The report also benefitted from comments and data by Mariano Berkenwald, César Alejandro Hernández Alva, Randi Kristiansen, Enrique Gutierrez, Luiz Gustavo Silva de Oliveira and Domenico Lattanzio from the International Energy Agency. Jennifer Stein co-ordinated the editorial process and Andrea Uhrhammer provided editorial support. The translation of the report into Portuguese was prepared by AP | Portugal.
The team included three peer reviewers, who participated in a virtual policy mission to Brazil and provided extensive inputs and feedback throughout the development of the review: Sandy Lapointe, Regulatory Executive Vice-President of the Canada Energy Regulator (CER), Canada; Annegret Groebel, Director of International Relations at the German Regulatory Authority for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA), Germany; and Therése Hindman Persson, Chief Economist and Head of the Chief Economist Function at the Swedish Energy Markets Inspectorate, Sweden.
The report would not have been possible without the support of ANEEL and its staff. The team would like to thank in particular the following colleagues for their valuable assistance in collecting data and information, for their support and flexibility to organising and conducting the team’s missions remotely, as well as for providing feedback at different stages of the review: André Pepitone da Nóbrega, Director-General; Elisa Bastos Silva, Sandoval de Araújo Feitosa Neto, Hélvio Neves Guerra and Efrain Pereira da Cruz, Members of the Board of Directors; Rodrigo Limp Nascimento, former Member of the Board of Directors; Angélica de Cássia Pertille Ambrosini, Head of International Affairs; and Fábio Cavalcante, Deputy Head of International Affairs. Interviews and comments from the various ANEEL departments, government, industry and civil society stakeholders during the review process contributed to the analysis presented in the report.