Cemig (Minas Gerais Energy Company) took almost a month, but finally responded to the document sent on October 18 by the Solar Alliance, formed by INEL (National Institute of Clean Energy) and MSL (Free Solar Movement).
The agreement sought a solution to end the rejection of photovoltaic projects in the State of Minas Gerais, especially for microgeneration plants.
However, despite appeals from the sector, the distributor denied any possibility of an agreement and the rejections of the projects are still based on flow inversion and “night” injection.
Throughout the State, there are already reports of integrators with projects of less than 5 kWp being rejected by the concessionaire – which will continue to adhere to Art. 73 of the Resolution 1.059 of the ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency), which, in February this year, regulated the 14.300 Law in Brazil.
“The only viable option with the lowest overall cost is the injection at a pre-established time. Therefore, the injection of power from its microgeneration into the electrical system must be restricted to the hours of 19:00 pm to 5:00 am (every day)”, stated Cemig.
Context
On the 18th of October, representatives of entities linked to the photovoltaic sector met with Cemig executives to discuss a technical alignment regarding the rejections of solar projects that are occurring in the municipalities of Minas Gerais.
The meeting was held at Cemig's headquarters and was attended by entities such as ABSOLAR (Brazilian Photovoltaic Solar Energy Association); ABGD (Brazilian Association of Distributed Generation); Crea-MG (Regional Engineering and Agronomy Council of Minas Gerais); MSL (Free Solar Motion) and RING (National Clean Energy Institute).
The associations argued that there is no logic in the process adopted to reject projects based on the lack of a grid. For this reason, through a document written by Aliança Solar, they asked the distributor to no longer limit the installation of requests.
The suggestion for an agreement to resolve the problem was forwarded to Cemig members, requesting agreement on a response period of up to a maximum of 15 days, which was not even met by the distributor.
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Legal measures
Ao Canal Solar, Marina Meyer, president of the Energy Law Commission of the OAB (Brazilian Bar Association) of Minas Gerais and regulatory secretary of INEL, said that she is already studying adopting measures against Cemig, in line with the Solar Alliance.
“Cases of reverse flow continue, as do other regulatory abuses, such as unfair competition from Cemig SIN. We will take all appropriate administrative and judicial measures,” she said.
The lawyer also revealed that, in parallel to this, Aliança Solar has already scheduled a meeting with ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency) to address the issue. “We already have a meeting with the Agency on November 22 to address this specific issue of Cemig.”
The expectation is that this meeting will bring concrete advances and have repercussions among the main solar energy news in the country.
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These consequences are the responsibility of the congressmen who created the law in order to benefit the operator. It is in the congress that adjustments must be promoted.
For CEMIG's claim to make any sense, the reverse flow should be twice the load capacity of a substation, which is obviously very far from happening!
In order for Cemig to support its narrative of flow inversion, it will be necessary for it to install an electrical quantity meter on the secondary of the TRS that demonstrates their theory, where there will be a colored graph and also a mathematical report of all the quantities measured. There is no narrative without proof. It will also have to provide the mass memory of this feeder so that it can prove what it reports in the law and specifically in this feeder of this circuit of the transformer in question. Therefore, if it does not want to install the meters, then you at ANEEL, the institutions involved, will have to install them.
CEMIG's other people's interests are selfish and in bad taste, the growth of the photovoltaic sector worries it
We recently received a “lunar” power restriction on a small project, 15 kW. We proposed using a Zero grid meter, as nighttime energy injection was not viable, but the proposal was rejected. It's difficult to deal with CEMIG
Look, the Zema government doesn't listen to anyone, in its mind there is only room for privatization. This case will end in court without a doubt
These Companies have their days numbered!!
They don't invest in networks, that's why they create unreasonable excuses!!!
delaying its end!!
They sucked everything from the people and didn't pay attention to the future!!!
In RJ and São Paulo it is also like this in another aspect. ANEEL Take action or you will suffer too.
SHAME AND IMMORALITY TO SOCIETY!! THAT'S RIGHT, THEY HAVE ALREADY OWNED A CONSIDERABLE MARKET SHARE OF THE TOTAL CAPACITY GENERATED.
SO BADLY USED FOR DECADES, THEY BREAST, ONLY HALF A DOZEN, IN THIS PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION STAGE, KEEPING THE CITIZEN ON A LEASH, ON TIME!!
THE EASY WAY IS OVER, NOW IT'S EASY AND ONLY IF YOU TAKE WORM SOUP.
BRAZIL IN THIS FOLLOWING, THERE IS NO GOING BACK! AND GET RID OF THIS SLAVERY, THE CITIZEN.
Pity and great, shame on the government, in a Brazil of 220 million inhabitants, and taxes charged even for the air they breathe,
ONLY 7 TO 8 MILLION PEOPLE, IN DISTRIBUTED GENERATION, HAVE A SOLAR PLANT AT HOME!
EMERSON
congratulations,….
I completely agree with you…
Cemig cannot harm the sector after it also benefits from the investment made by the photovoltaic plant contractor, what happened is that Cemig wants the monopoly and I leave and it is unacceptable