Cemig responds to the solar sector and says it will not put an end to the rejections

Concessionaire does not accept sectoral proposal and will continue to deny DG projects alleging flow reversal
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Cemig responde setor solar e afirma que não dará fim às reprovações
Cemig building, in Minas Gerais. Photo: Cemig/Disclosure

A Cemig (Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais) took almost a month, but finally, he responded the document forwarded on October 18th by Solar Alliance, formed by INEL (National Institute of Clean Energy) and MSL (Movimento Solar Livre).

O agreement sought a solution for the end of photovoltaic project rejections in the state of Minas Gerais, especially for microgeneration plants.

However, despite calls from the sector, The distributor denied any possibility of agreement and rejections of projects are still based on flow reversal 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 ANEEL Resolution 1,059 (National Electric Energy Agency), which, in February this year, regulated the Law 14,300 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 7:00 pm to 5:00 am (every day)”, stated Cemig.

Context

On October 18th, 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 ABSOLATE (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 INEL (National Clean Energy Institute).

The associations argued that there is no logic in the process adopted to reject projects based on a lack of network. For this reason, Through a document written by Aliança Solar, they asked the distributor to no longer limit the installation of orders.

The suggested 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. 

Legal measures

To the Solar Channel, Marina Meyer, president of the OAB Energy Law Commission (Brazilian Bar Association) of Minas Gerais and regulatory secretary of INEL, said that he is already considering adopting measures against Cemig, in line with Aliança Solar. 

“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 discuss the matter. “We already have a meeting with the Agency on November 22nd to discuss this specific Cemig issue.” 

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Henry 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.

9 Responses

  1. 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.

  2. For CEMIG's claim to make any sense, the reverse flow should be double the load capacity of a substation, which is obviously very far from happening!

  3. In order for Cemig to support itself in the flow reversal narrative, it will be necessary for it to install an electrical magnitude meter in the secondary of three to demonstrate their thesis, where there will be a colored graph and also a mathematical report of all measured quantities, there is no narrative. no evidence. She will also have to provide the mass memory of this feeder so she can prove what is stated in the law and specifically in this feeder of this transformer circuit in question. So if it doesn't want to install the meters, then you at Aneel and the institutions involved will have to install them.

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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 from another aspect. ANEEL takes measures or it will suffer too.

  7. SHAME AND IMMORALITY WITH SOCIETY!! THAT'S EVEN THEY HAVE ALREADY AQUINOTED 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!!

    NO MORE EASY, NOW EASY AND ONLY IF YOU DRINK 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 THE DISTRIBUTED GENERATION, HAVE A SOLAR PLANT AT HOME!

    EMERSON

  8. 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

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