Brazil has already installed more than 150 thousand solar DG systems in 2023

Connections between January and March this year already exceed the entire volume of installations for the entire year 2019
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Brasil já instalou mais de 150 mil sistemas de GD solar em 2023
Brazil has more than 1.78 million self-generated PV systems since 2012. Photo: IS Brasil

O Brazil already installed more than 150 thousand solar energy systems in the segment of distributed micro and minigeneration only in 2023, indicate data recorded by ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency).  

It is a volume of units that, in less than three months, already overcome O number of connections computed over for the entire year 2019, which registered 123.8 thousand installations between the months of January and December. 

Currently, the Brazil has more than 1.78 million photovoltaic systems own generation since 2012 – date on which the expansion of the source began in the country, with the publication of the Normative Resolution No. 482.

Currently, the number of systems installed between January 1st and March 20th of this year it's just not bigger, at the moment, that the number of systems installed in the last three full years: there were 226.4 thousand in 2020; 458 thousand in 2021 and 768 thousand in 2022. 

In all other years (from January to December), the volume of photovoltaic connections in Brazil was lower than at the beginning of the year – which proves that the solar DG market will continue to heat up and break records throughout this and the coming years.

Mário Viana, commercial and marketing director at Sou Energy, explains that in the first two months of the year Sales of solar energy systems even had a negative impact, because sellers needed a few days to understand that “the cost of Fio B has very little impact on the lives of their customers”, he commented.

However, he highlighted that, quickly, in March, business began to return to previous levels, which will mean that the sector will continue to “have a market for many, many years”, he stressed. 

Number of solar DG systems installed per year in Brazil:

  • 2012: 11
  • 2013: 51
  • 2014: 283
  • 2015: 1.3 thousand
  • 2016: 6.5 thousand
  • 2017: 13.6 thousand
  • 2018: 35.6 thousand
  • 2019: 123.8 thousand
  • 2020: 226.4 thousand
  • 2021: 458 thousand
  • 2022: 768 thousand
  • 2023 (Jan/Mar): 150.6 thousand
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Henrique Hein
He worked at Correio Popular and Rádio Trianon. He has experience in podcast production, radio programs, interviews and reporting. Has been following the solar sector since 2020.

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