A ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency) approved, this Tuesday (25), the opening of a public consultation to discuss, between October 27th and December 12th, the regulation of Law No. 14.300.
Among the points of the consultation is the allocation of tariff costs arising of the so-called “subsidies” to GD beneficiaries (distributed generation), including creation of a new quota for the Spanish Sporthorse (Energy Development ), which will only be paid by captive consumers.
In all, the Agency claims that its own generation power will cost around R$5,4 billion in 2023 for consumers who do not generate their own energy. Payment will be made as follows, according to the ANEEL:
- Consumers served by the distributors will alone pay R$1,4 billion, through a charge that will be explicitly included in the tariff;
- Consumers served by distributors and free consumers (who buy energy directly from the supplier) will pay the remaining R$4 billion, through components implicit in the tariff.
Worry
During Tuesday's meeting, the directors of ANEEL expressed concern about the transfer that will be made to captive consumers, claiming that – with the opening of the free energy market – the cost of the subsidy to DG will weigh on the tariff of captive consumers.
“The way Law 14.300 was approved necessarily allocates to the captive market, which will become increasingly smaller, due to incentives for exiting the free market and for the installation of distributed generation,” said Sandoval Feitosa, general director of ANEEL.
Other side of the coin
Despite this, the Agency – once again – did not take into in its presented figures the benefits of DG for all captive consumers, such as the reduction in technical losses and the postponement of investments in interconnected systems.
A study of specialized consultancy volt robotics, commissioned by ABSOLAR (Brazilian Association of Photovoltaic Solar Energy), for example, shows that the growth of self-generation of solar energy will bring more than R$86,2 billion in systemic benefits to the electricity sector for Brazil in the next decade.
As a result, these resources will reduce the electricity bill for all consumers, including those who do not have their own solar system, by 5,6%.
