With the collaboration of Henrique Hein
O PL 528 / 20, known as the “fuels of the future” bill, was approved, on the night of this Wednesday (11), without the amendment that had been included by the Federal Senate, which I was looking for extend from 12 to 30 months the deadline for starting the energy injection for DG projects (distributed generation), regardless of the source used. Now, the PL goes to presidential sanction.
Federal deputy Benes Leocádio even filed a Bench Highlight in the plenary so that the amendment approved by the Federal Senate could be voted on separately after the rapporteur rejected the amendment in his vote. However, the parliamentarian was not present at the session and the request was withdrawn by his party.
The withdrawal of the amendment was regretted by Congressman Lafayette Andrada. “The amendment would be put to a vote in the plenary and I am confident that we would approve the Senate amendment. However, the government managed to negotiate and, unfortunately, the congressman is not here and his party withdrew the amendment and we can no longer present this amendment. Therefore, the Senate amendment was not accepted by the rapporteur and will not be voted on by the plenary”, he said in a video to which the Canal Solar had access.
Understand the case
The “fuel of the future” bill was introduced in 2020 with the aim of promoting national green diesel, sustainable aviation fuel and biomethane programs.
The text was approved by the Chamber of Deputies only in March of this year and was sent for voting in the Senate, where the Senator Irajá (PSD-TO) proposed the increase of the amendment that would extend the energy injection period for distributed mini-generation projects.
The amendment and the bill were approved by senators last week and the text, as it underwent changes, returned to the Chamber of Deputies for a final analysis by parliamentarians.
This Wednesday, the rapporteur of the bill, federal deputy Arnaldo Jardim, proposed the withdrawal of the amendment. In your vote, the parliamentarian said that the amendment was withdrawn because it concerns a matter that “affects the legal framework for microgeneration and distributed minigeneration, which is not the subject of the bill under examination”.
Discussion on the amendment
The approval of the amendment in the Senate divided the opinions of companies operating in the Brazilian electricity sector. The measure was criticized by electricity distributors, who positioned themselves against the inclusion of the amendment in the bill.
In contrast, associations and companies operating in the DG segment highlighted that the measure would bring balance to the sector, with the creation of thousands of green jobs and revenue from large investments.
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