The Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (ANEEL) submitted a draft resolution and a Regulatory Impact Analysis (AIR, in the Portuguese acronym) to public consultation, regarding the inclusion of renewable energy sources, especially solar photovoltaic energy, to existing isolated systems contracts, which operate mostly on diesel fuel.
Public Consultation n. 67/2020 from the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (ANEEL) seeks to collect public contributions on a draft normative resolution and a Regulatory Impact Analysis (AIR, in the Portuguese acronym) on the inclusion of renewable energy sources to Electrical Energy Commercialization in Isolated Systems Contracts (CCESI, in the Portuguese acronym), in accordance with ANEEL 2019-2020 Regulatory Agenda.
The AIR informed about a regulatory problem in which public notices are already enabling the application of renewable energy sources to isolated systems, but a defined regulatory framework on the subject was still lacking. The AIR also assumed that the most efficient renewable energy source for those systems are solar photovoltaic, given that all isolated systems are located in the Brazilian northern region.
Since the inclusion of new energy sources represent an increase in supply, the draft normative resolution rules the regulatory values that will guide the reduction in reference prices for contracts that introduce renewable energy sources, as long as the contract is valid for at least five more years. The regulatory values are organized by power range and years of remaining contract validity (between six and fifteen).
Contributions to the first phase can be submitted by January 04, 2021 to this e-mail address using this contribution template. The AIR and the draft normative resolution can be found here (in Portuguese).
