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For those who cannot afford to invest in a photovoltaic system (either due to lack of space or capital), shared generation is an excellent alternative to achieve the desired savings on their electricity bill. In recent years, many companies have invested in this modality. The business model consists of distributing solar energy credits to a large group of consumers. However, managing hundreds or thousands of customers is a major challenge that can only be overcome with the use of technology. The challenges and opportunities of shared generation were one of the themes of the II Canal Conecta, a congress held this week by Canal Solar, at the Crea-SP headquarters in São Paulo (SP). Einar Tribuci, founding partner of Tribuci Advogados, recalled that there was a huge rush last year to take advantage of the benefits of shared generation before the regulation change. "By the end of next year, there will be many plants to be connected, without customers to consume all this energy. This is where marketplaces come in to explore shared generation." Marketplaces are technology companies that connect the energy generator and end consumers, a model known as subscription solar energy. According to Lincoin Romaro, Executive Director of WATTIO, one challenge that entrepreneurs face when thinking about investing in shared generation is knowing how much the energy credit is worth. This will depend on the distributor where the plant is located, when the plant was connected (before or after 14.300/22), among other factors. "Understanding this dynamic is the first major barrier and it is not easy. For those who are operating in the market, this is not easy, imagine for the consumer who has never bought energy in his life", said Romaro. Shared generation was regulated in 2015 (REN 687/15). However, this market only took off in recent years, when entrepreneurs overcame the barrier of the energy trading model. According to Roberto Corrêa, general director of Congecon, the initial challenge was to build an understanding of what a shared distributed generation cooperative was and how to distribute this energy to its members. Since the regulation did not allow energy trading, but rather credit compensation, the solution was to build a plant leasing model through a performance contract. The next challenge for the cooperative model was to know how to reduce the risk of default, in such a way that this would not affect the obligations of the leasing contract or the other members. "We needed to structure a guarantee operation. In the cooperative, you have the guarantee level that securitizes the operation, so that you can actually bring this default environment into the account and you don't run the risk of bringing this default into the cooperative's results. With this, you ensure that the cooperative member is assured that any defaults by other players will not affect him," explained Corrêa. Rodrigo Renó Gonzaga, president of RenovaEco, said that creating a DG cooperative involves a very big commitment to the cooperative members. "The greatest strength at this moment is for us to strengthen the cooperative arrangement and use renewable energy as an instrument to leverage this business model." "We have to keep an eye on the opportunities that we are not seeing. But if we organize ourselves together, I am sure that these opportunities will emerge even more," added Gonzaga.

Shared generation: gains in scale involve the use of technology

Shared generation: gains in scale involve the use of technology

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Shared generation: gains in scale involve the use of technology

Shared generation: gains in scale involve the use of technology

Five thousand Brazilian municipalities already have solar energy

Residential solar energy is cheaper, points out Greener

Farmer bets on solar with battery and triples grain production

Changes in the Chinese market could affect prices of photovoltaic modules in Brazil

Uberaba HC implements solar plant; savings will be R$300 thousand per year

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