Senate Approves Legal Framework for Distributed Generation, Check Out the Main Changes in Solar Power Generation

With Adjusted Benefits, The Report Returns To The Chamber Of Deputies For Final Approval On Distributed Generation And The Main Changes Sought For The Own Generation Of Solar Energy

The Senate approved, last Wednesday, the 15th, the bill considered as the Legal Framework for Distributed Generation in Brazil, which is nothing more than the generation of energy made by consumers themselves, using the solar energy capture system. The report will now return to the Chamber of Deputies, as there were changes made by the senators to the initial report.

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Even though 9 amendments have been approved in total and 6 other amendments unified with the report that had been approved by the Chamber of Deputies in mid-August, the Senate, by mutual agreement, maintained the essence of the project, which highlighted that those already in the market for solar energy generation and distribution, or those who enter the market at least 1 year after the official publication of the law, will have their benefits maintained until the year 2045. However, those who enter much later than the stipulated deadline will have their benefit only until 2028.

Learn More About The Benefit Created To Stimulate Solar Energy Generation And Distributed Generation In Brazil

The benefit created in 2012 by the National Electric Energy Agency – Aneel, aimed to create an incentive for the emergence of companies that worked with solar energy generation and also for large energy companies to readjust their way of generating energy.

However, since 2018, when there was a high and rapid growth of solar energy projects and installations in Brazil, Aneel calculated that this subsidy would generate, between 2020 and 2035, a loss greater than R$ 65 billion to all other consumers of conventional sources.

News Of The Amendments Approved By The Senate

In the new amendments drafted and already approved by the Senate, among the main novelties is the use of floating panels in hydroelectric plants, which will allow classification as floating photovoltaic solar panels, which will remain in reservoirs as Microgeneration and Minigeneration Distributed. In the electrical sector, these newly approved possibilities by the Senate were already being considered.

According to the report approved in the Chamber, the cost calculations made by Aneel would have a maximum deadline of 18 months for the benefits of distributed generation to finally be delivered to the electrical sector.

The Senate also put forward other cost calculations that need to be made, in addition to the inclusion of Small Hydroelectric Plants, the PCHs, which had already been authorized by Aneel, in the category of Distributed Microgeneration. The Senate also increased the power limits concerning the situation of minigeneration companies from 5 MW to 10 MW.

Other Situations Addressed

Regarding hydroelectric sources, the limit remains at 30 MW. If an extension of the generation deadline is needed, generators – of any type of source – will have about 9 months to start injecting energy into the transmission networks. Initially, it would be just 4 months, according to what had been approved by the Chamber in the initial report.