As we become more mature, experience leads us to see more opportunities, to deal better with good and bad situations, and to make fewer mistakes.
This healthy and continuous process of maturation applies to any area of life and is also observed in companies, organizations and markets. It would be no different with the solar energy sector, which is becoming smarter.
It is possible to observe this maturation of the Brazilian market in three trends for the near future. The growing participation of solar energy in the national energy matrix, with greater injection of surplus energy into the grid, will pose technical challenges to the ONS (National System Operator) for managing the grid.
In this scenario, the sector seeks agreements around regulation that balances the interests of the country and the players, and at the same time brings more security to the entire system.
As part of this, the tendency is, over the next few years, to begin to see more differences in the price of energy by consumption time slots, which will affect the times at which we will use the energy generated and the times at which we will store it. there.
This is related to all trends in Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG), carbon footprint and green certificates. We will see more companies concerned about using only energy from renewable sources and obtaining carbon credits to offset their greenhouse gas emissions.
Another trend is to see much more integration between solar energy generation and its use, whether through intelligent activation of loads and/or integrations with forms of storage, not only with batteries, but also with electric cars. Cars are still big batteries with wheels and we can also use them as a form of storage.
The third trend is for photovoltaic solar energy generation to become even safer. With the increasing representation of solar energy, it is time to give more relevance to issues such as safety, especially when solar plants are in places where there are people and storage of high-cost materials, for example.
In places such as the United States, Australia, and some European countries, safety features such as rapid shutdown, SafeDC (to ensure that the output voltage of each module is reduced to a safe voltage whenever AC power is off), and protection arc flash, which were previously only recommended, are becoming mandatory.
It's more or less the same as what happened with items like seat belts and airbags in cars. In the past, they were not mandatory, but little by little they became so. Without a doubt, these are very welcome developments for the sector.
