A brazilian electrical matrix sured the mark 200 GW of capacity installed this Thursday (07), after the start of commercial operations at the Boa Sorte I photovoltaic plant, in Paracatu (MG).
Of this amount, approximately 84,25% are from renewable sources e 15,75% from non-renewable sourcesAccording to ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency).
Currently, biggest clean fonts that make up the country's electrical energy matrix are: water (55%), wind (14,8%), biomass (8,4%) and centralized solar (6,4%).
Among non-renewable energies, natural gas plants are the majority (9%), followed by oil (4%) and mineral coal (1,75%).
For the general director of ANEEL, Sandoval Feitosa, the milestone of reaching 200 GW is a reason for celebration for Brazil.
“When a ANEEL started its activities, em 1997, capacity installed in the country was around 60 GW. In other words, in less than three decades, the number has more than tripled,” he said.
Feitosa also pointed out that less than 20 years ago, sources such as wind and solar – until then considered alternatives – still did not appear in energy generation statistics. “The future is even more promising”, he assessed.
Granted projects
In addition to the 200 GW in operation, the Brazil's electrical matrix also has another 169 GW granted in plants not yet operational.
Of this amount, 132 GW are from projects originating from large solar plants; 25,5 GW of wind farms, and 8,4 GW of thermoelectric plants.
For this year, the forecast for growth in the country's electricity generation is 10,1 GW.
This should be the second largest annual advance ever recorded by ANEEL, behind only the growth of 10,3 GW in 2023.
Distributed micro and minigeneration accumulates 27,7 GW
In addition to the expansion of the centralized Brazilian electricity matrix, Brazil is also ing another important growth in energy supply: through distributed micro and minigeneration projects.
Currently, the segment (made up almost entirely of solar energy systems) has more than 2,4 million completed connections and an installed power of more than 27,7 GW.
Because the ANEEL Doesn't it add up the centralized and distributed generation powers?
According to ANEEL, this is because the Electrical energy produced by the two segments is used differently.
In the case of centralized generation, electrical energy is sold within the scope of CCEE (Electricity Trading Chamber), both in the ACR (Regulated Trading Environment) as in ACL (Free Trading Environment).
“Centralized generation is thus delivered to all electricity distributors so that they can fulfill their commitment to supplying quality energy to all consumers connected to the grid,” explains ANEEL.
The electrical energy produced by distributed micro and mini generation systems is used primarily by consumers who own these systems and by other consumer units related to them.
“Only the electrical energy produced by the systems and not used by these units – called surplus energy – is released into the distributor's network, at the tariff price, through compensation in the electricity bill, for use by other consumers, together with the energy delivered by centralized plants”, highlighted the Agency.
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