PL 5829 (Bill n. 5829/2019) was included in the Senate deliberation agenda and it could be voted on by parliamentarians next Thursday (25).
The text aims to create the Legal Framework for GD (distributed generation) in Brazil, attributing to ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency) the responsibility to consider technical, environmental and social attributes in the calculation of energy compensation.
Authored by deputy Silas Câmara (Republicanos-AM) and reported by deputy Lafayette Andrada (Republicanos/MG), the The proposal was approved in the Chamber of Deputies on August 18.
The document was discussed in a single round and had an absolute majority of votes, with 476 in favor, three against and three abstentions. Since then, it has remained in the Senate pending bureaucratic procedures.
On September 20, Senator Marcos Rogério (DEM-RO) was appointed as rapporteur for the project by the President of the House, Rodrigo Pacheco (DEM-MG). The text now requires a simple majority quorum for approval. In other words, it has to be approved by more than 50% of senators, without significant changes, to become law. If approved with changes, the matter will return to the Chamber for a new vote.
Troubled procedure
Initially, PL 5829 was scheduled to be voted on in the Chamber of Deputies at the beginning of 2020, but ended up being postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The topic was revisited in December of the same year, when the majority of deputies voted to urgently implement the text.
The decision allowed the text to skip some steps in the processing process and go straight to voting, which ended up not being confirmed initially. Before being approved, the project was put on the agenda for voting 11 times, without being analyzed in any of the extraordinary sessions, due to a lack of consensus among parliamentarians.
Currently, according to data from ANEEL, Brazil already has more than 12 GW of operational solar power, in large-scale plants and in small and medium-sized systems installed on roofs, facades and land.
