According to the Generation and Transmission Cost Parameters notebook of the PDE 2030 (Ten-Year Energy Expansion Plan 2030), launched by EPE (Energy Research Company), at the end of January, wind and photovoltaic sources had their implementation and operation costs reduced, reflecting the market trends observed.
Sources such as PCH (Small Hydroelectric Plants) and CGH (Hydroelectric Generating Plants), Biomass (Sugarcane Bagasse, Wood Chip) and Biogas maintained cost levels equal to those used for PDE 2029.
Some costs of natural gas, coal, nuclear, offshore wind power plants and storage technologies, such as reversible plants and batteries, increased compared to last year's study.
According to the report, this can be justified, in most cases, due to the higher value adopted as a foreign currency reference, compared to that considered in PDE 2029, which has a great impact on portions of these values.
About PDE 2030
The 2030 Ten-Year Energy Expansion Plan presents details of the energy sources considered as a supply for energy expansion in the studies, as well as the reference costs of interconnections between subsystems.
It is worth mentioning that sources such as floating photovoltaics and biogas began to be considered from PDE 2030 onwards, thus having no basis for comparison.
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The tendency is for this inflection to remain until, obviously, it reaches temporal stability and, therefore, inexorable competitiveness vis-à-vis other primary sources. We have to regret that we are still waiting for the definitive analysis by the national congress of resolution 482, which deals with alternative and renewable energy. We hope there are no unpleasant surprises.