The Brazilian Electric Power Industry (SEB) has undergone a major restructuring moving from a situation of state monopoly to a regulated privatization. In this process, interaction among agents took place in the industry, influencing electricity spot prices and consequently power derivative contracts. This work: places electric power in the context of other commodities and discusses its specific characteristics; presents the Brazilian Power Companies and the Brazilian Electricity Market and discusses the formation of short-term prices in Brazil. We used historical data to carry out the parameters estimation of a model that captures the main characteristics of electricity spot prices and we analyzed a flexibility of partial buying or selling of one energy contract using the Real Options Approach (ROA), employing Monte Carlo Method (MCM) to simulate these prices. We concluded that this flexibility adds value to power contracts.