During a debate on distributed generation in Brazil, Daniel Vieira, advisor to the Board of Directors of the National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL), reaffirmed the regulator's commitment to preserving the acquired rights of consumers who already have distributed solar photovoltaic generation.
According to Vieira, the update of Normative Resolution No. 482 of the ANEEL, which allows consumers to generate and consume their own electricity from renewable sources, with greater freedom and savings, would only come into effect when Brazil reached a minimum amount of distributed generation participation in the national electricity matrix.
“The changes to the rules for distributed generation in Brazil, scheduled to be published by the second half of this year, will only apply to new connections in Brazil, thus guaranteeing legal security and the contracts of pioneers who believed in this technology”, highlighted the advisor .
The statement was made during the ABSOLAR Meeting, event held on 28/03 by the Brazilian Association of Photovoltaic Solar Energy (ABSOLAR), in São Paulo. One of the central themes of the discussion was the model for valuing electrical energy and the benefits arising from distributed solar photovoltaic microgeneration and minigeneration for the electrical sector, for Brazilian society and for the sustainable development of the country.
Throughout the regulatory debate process, the ABSOLAR has guided the discussion of distributed solar photovoltaic microgeneration and minigeneration based on a high-level assessment, focused on the benefits provided to Brazilian society as a whole. “In the last public hearing, Aneel’s technical teams correctly incorporated several of the positive attributes of distributed generation into the analysis methodology, comparing these attributes with any existing costs”, recalled the CEO of ABSOLAR, Rodrigo Sauaia.
“Among benefits incorporated in the analysis and recommended by ABSOLAR, are avoided electrical energy, reduction of losses in distribution and transmission and reduction of capacity”, he added. However, according to Sauaia, despite being a good start, the calculation is still incomplete. “There is a need for improvements, such as adjusting important premises and incorporating other relevant benefits that distributed generation brings to the country and that were left out of the analysis”, he explained.
Source: ABSOLAR: https://bit.ly/3kZ8e9D
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