The rapporteur of PL 5829, deputy Lafayette de Andrada, left the CME (Mines and Energy Commission) meeting held on Tuesday afternoon (13) feeling confident. The parliamentarian told the reporters of Canal Solar noted that the committee members received the text positively. “After presenting the substitute text and clarifying my colleagues’ doubts, about ten deputies asked to speak. With the exception of deputy Marcelo Ramos, all the others praised the bill and considered it a good and balanced proposal,” commented Lafayette.
The meeting was reserved for CME members. The objective of the meeting was precisely to clarify the main points that PL 5829 proposes for the electricity sector. The proposal, known as the legal framework for DG (distributed generation) in Brazil, has been the subject of discussions among professionals, businesspeople and associations in the electricity sector, leading to debates in several online events.
Last week, during one of these events, engineer Tássio Barboza, Technical Director of ABS (Bahia Solar Energy Association) and Assistant Secretary for Technical Affairs at INEL (National Institute of Clean Energy) presented a calculation that shows that the creation of the DG legal framework should bring approximately R$50 billion in benefits to the electricity sector by 2035.
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This calculation considered the positive impacts of DG on the Brazilian energy matrix. Among them, maintaining the volume of water in reservoirs, reducing electrical losses and, consequently, reducing the need to activate tariff flags.
