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Approximately nine out of every ten distributed micro and minigeneration systems in Brazil come from installations carried out by individuals, according to information from the data platform of Sunny.
Of the approximately 1.36 million systems connected to the grid, more than 1.15 million (87.4%) are from consumers who used the CPF to purchase photovoltaic panels, while only 167.5 thousand (12.6%) were from legal entities, starting from the CNPJ.
Carlos Bouhid, CEO of Suney, highlights that the difference in numbers can be explained, above all, because of the popularization of photovoltaic systems among residential consumers.
“The number of residential consumer units is substantially higher than the number of commercial and industrial consumer units. Coldly, this could be the most direct explanation”, he assesses.
“However, there are also other factors that we must take into consideration, such as the price of residential electricity and the lack of alternatives to reduce energy costs”, highlights Bouhid.
Currently, almost 75% of the systems installed in the solar DG segment in Brazil (just over 1.01 million) are residential. In commercial and industrial establishments – where the CNPJ is usually used to acquire technology – there are only 222.7 thousand systems in operation.
Another factor that explains the adoption of solar energy by individuals is the greater ease in obtaining financing from banks, such as Santander It is Caixa Econômica Federal, and other institutions.
Suney itself, the company responsible for the study, for example, offers credit for financing small and medium-sized systems, with rates starting at 1.5% per month and release in 24 hours.
