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With readjusted benefits, the report goes back to the Chamber of Deputies to receive a final endorsement on distributed generation and the main changes scheduled for 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, from the solar energy capture system. The report will now go back to the Chamber of Deputies as there are changes made by senators to the initial report.
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Even though a total of 9 amendments have already been approved and a further 6 amendments have been unified to the report that had been approved by the Chamber of Deputies in mid-August, the Senate, in common agreement, maintained the essence of the project, in which it was highlighted that those who are already in the solar energy generation and distribution market, or who enter the market until at least 1 year after the official publication of the law, will have their benefit maintained until the year 2045. 2028.
Learn more about the benefit created to stimulate the generation of solar energy and distributed generation in Brazil
The benefit created in 2012 by the National Electric Energy Agency - Aneel, served to create a stimulus for the emergence of companies that work with solar energy generation and also for large energy companies to readjust their way of generating energy.
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But since 2018, when there was a high and rapid growth of projects and deployments of solar energy systems in Brazil, Aneel calculated that this subsidy would generate, between 2020 and 2035, a loss of more than R$ 65 billion to all other consumers of the conventional source.
Amendments passed by the Senate
In the new amendments prepared and already approved by the Senate, among the main novelties are the use of floating panels in hydroelectric plants, which will allow classification as a floating photovoltaic solar panel, which will be in reservoirs such as Microgeneration and Distributed Minigeneration. In the electricity sector, these possibilities recently approved by the Senate were already being considered.
According to the report approved by the Chamber, the cost calculations made by Aneel would have a maximum period of 18 months so that the benefits of distributed generation could finally be delivered to the electricity sector.
The Senate also put on the agenda other cost calculations that must be made, in addition to the inclusion of Small Hydroelectric Power Plants, PCHs, which had already been authorized by Aneel, in the Distributed Microgeneration category. The Senate also increased the power limits, regarding the situation of distributed mini-generation companies, from 5 MW to 10 MW.
Other ruled situations
Regarding hydroelectric sources, the limit remains at 30MW. If it is necessary to extend the generation period, generators – from any type of source – will have about 9 months to start inserting energy into the transfer networks. Initially, it would only be 4 months, according to what had been approved by the Chamber in the initial report.
