Um bill that is being processed in Câmara dos Deputados wants to force solar and wind power plants to pay financial compensation to states, municipalities and direct government bodies.
The proposal foresees that compensation will be equivalent to 7% of the value of the energy produced.
Currently, the legislation in the electricity sector only provides for the payment of financial compensation for hydroelectric plants. This payment corresponds to compensation for the exploitation of water resources.
The author of the text, deputy João Carlos Bacelar Batista (PV-BA), claims that the alleged exploitation of resources provided by solar and wind power plants would be causing impacts on the environment and territorial space.
“The use of land, previously intended for other productive activities, is increasingly required to carry out these activities. This economic displacement represents frustration of tax revenues for states and municipalities”, argued the parliamentarian.
The text will be analyzed by the committees of Mines and Energy; Finance and Taxation; and Constitution and Justice and Citizenship in a conclusive manner – a processing procedure by which the project does not need to be voted on by the Plenary, only by the committees designated to analyze it.
Legal assessment
According to Marina Meyer Falcão, president of the Energy Law Commission of the OAB/MG and secretary of regulatory affairs at INEL (National Institute of Clean Energy), the possibility of having financial compensation for solar and wind energy in the presented by the deputy is completely absurd.
“This PL surprised us and we cannot agree to have any taxation for solar and wind plants, which have contributed so much in the last four years to Brazil's economic growth, bringing countless benefits,” she said.
The lawyer further explains that financial compensation for hydroelectric potential is already expressly provided for in Article 20, section 8 of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution, and that there is no express provision of this type for solar and wind potential, which makes the bill proposed by Bacelar Batista unconstitutional.
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These pieces of garbage that live in our world are always at the “service” of someone, in the case of GD, the energy concessionaires. Most of them are state-owned and inefficient. What is working and saving Brazil from blackouts, they want to make unviable…
That would be “taxing” the sun, wind and space. Our politicians are really creative, it’s not enough to bag the wind, we have to tax them too, ugh…
These politicians are tough guys, they don't have a shred of shame in proposing such nonsense. Some time ago, another northeastern politician (I don't which state and whether it was state or federal) wanted to charge royalties from wind generators. Just to give an example of how they are useless and just want to increase their own benefits. Recently a bridge collapsed in a small city in Rio Grande do Sul and the population was unable to wait due to the inaction of local politicians, who gave a deadline of 2 years to rebuild at a cost of around 25 million. The population got together, raised the money and in a few months built the new bridge at a cost of around 6 million (approximately 1/4 of the cost). An exclusively private initiative, which demonstrated in practice how inefficient and exploitative the state is. Bringing it to our area of operation, distributed generation has already placed on the roofs, the equivalent of a little more than 1,5 Itaipu in generation power. Without a single cent from the government and with these politicians throwing stones and creating ever greater obstacles. They want us captive and working for them to enjoy eternally. It's hard to bear.
As always, politics is trying to justify the unjustifiable. How do they intend to “measure” this land use compensation? How can they say which use could fit there and which resources would be harmed in this situation? This is unfeasible and when the situation is so confusing, anything is possible. I hope this doesn’t go ahead. I really do.
Shameful, irrational, I don't know what else to say.
Only in Brazil do you have this type of people, they just try to find flaws, they don't see what's good.
Canalhas