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Expand the democratization of the use of solar energy in Brazil. This is the main objective of the amendment to PL 5829/19, filed last Thursday (11), in the Chamber by federal deputy Rubens Bueno (Cidadania/PR).
The text was prepared by the NGO Revolusolar and had the contribution of Hans Rauschmayer, managing partner of Solarize and Marina Meyer, legal director of ABGD (Brazilian Association of Distributed Generation).
Among those benefiting from the amendment are residents of needy communities and energy-vulnerable consumers – who have electricity expenses in excess of 10% of family income.
According to the document, these consumers will be exempt from charging for availability costs and exempt from TUSD Fio B, which will be paid for by the CDE (Energy Development Account).
Deputy Bueno states that the measure has a socio-environmental purpose and aims to encourage the dissemination of the use of clean energy in the country, including for low-income populations.
“Compared to the Social Electricity Tariff, this proposal presents itself as a more sustainable, comprehensive, more efficient and less burdensome mechanism for public coffers, to expand access to electricity for low-income populations”, explains Bueno.
Marina highlighted that contrary to what we hear, everyone can have access to distributed generation. “Yes, she is accessible. This important amendment to the sector presents this and provides this experience for less privileged people”.
“This specific project in the favelas was developed with the support of Revolusolar, an important social organization for this functionality. And, finally, we also demonstrate that distributed generation is a democratic form of broad access for the entire population, in addition to generating employment and income and developing the extremely important productive sector at this time of pandemic, including bringing people who previously would not have opportunities to have access to a photovoltaic system”, adds the lawyer.
This amendment, in addition to expanding access to photovoltaic energy, contributes to reducing energy losses. This is the assessment of Adalberto Maluf, president of ABVE (Brazilian Electric Vehicle Association).
“Solar is a great way to guarantee clean and cheap energy for needy communities, and thus promote social development, reduce energy losses and theft and create green jobs in the installation”, highlights Maluf.
