The Brazilian Natural Gas Distributor Comgás Cut Its Tariffs for Industrial Consumers by an Average of 12.9% Until June 9.
The tax exemption for industrial consumers ranges from 10.4% to 14.1%, approved by the national regulator Arsesp. Comgás has gas supply contracts with the state-owned Petrobras and with the trading company Compass, but the latter’s contract is not currently active. Petrobras reduced its offer to natural gas distributors by 11.1% in early January due to lower oil prices, which are the reference for the contract.
The price of gas in the Comgás concessions fell by an average of 13%. The Public Utility Regulatory Agency of the State of São Paulo (Arsesp) published the latest update on the passing of gas costs and the graphical accounts in Comgás’s tariff in the Official Gazette on Thursday (9), effective from March 10, 2023. According to the agency, the average variation was -13%.
According to deliberation 1.389/2023 on December 9, 2022, in this new update, variations in industrial value costs, for example, -14.1% for industries consuming over 10,000,000 m3 and for consumption up to 2,000,000 m3, the variation was -13.7%, with consumption of 1,000,000 m³ being -13.5%; even in the industrial sector with a consumption of 30,000 m³, the variation was -10.4%.
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It is no surprise that Comgás is considered the largest natural gas distributor in Brazil: 2.3 million customers and over 150 years of history. In 2021, the Plugue innovation platform was born with the aim of realizing the digital transformation of the company and the entire national natural gas ecosystem.
Conceived during one of the most critical periods of the pandemic in Brazil, the initiative took shape and celebrated its first anniversary in October 2022. Today, the initiative is based on four pillars: the company, which fosters innovation and agility in Comgás’s open culture; academia, as a school for technology, innovation, and dynamism; energy, with a research, prototyping, and energy solution development center; venture capital, mapping, monitoring, and investing in start-ups with emphasis on strategic partnerships.
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ComGás – São Paulo Gas Company is a Brazilian company regarded by Abegas (Brazilian Association of Natural Gas Distributors) as the largest natural gas distributor in Brazil by volume.
The company supplies piped gas to over 1.7 million consumers in the residential, commercial, industrial, automotive, cogeneration, and co-generation sectors in 88 cities within its franchise area, including the metropolitan region of São Paulo, Vale do Paraíba, and the administrative regions of Baixada Santista and Campinas.


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