The Superintendence of Electricity (SIE) specified that he will submit the project to public hearings Regulation for the Approval, Interconnection and Operation of Distributed Energy Generation Facilities on November 15, as scheduled.
Through its department communicationsthe SIE confirmed to Free Diary that received the document from entities representing users and companies of solar panelswith proposals and changes in its content.
The Association of Owners of Solar Panels (Adupas), the Association of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Companies (Aseefeer) and the RD 100% Renewable Coalition signed a document with proposals for this regulationbecause they consider that it lacks guarantees right that all people have to the use of sunlight, among other objections.
“We invite you to public hearingsso they can go and do those observations; we are open to receive those observations and any other”, emphasized the regulatory institution of the energy sector, recalling that the SIE works on adjusting the contents of the piece and that the comments of these unions will be taken into account.
He indicated that every person interested You can register at public hearings through your Web page. “We want to make regulation a participatory process, we have always said it that way,” he said.
What worries the owners of solar panels
The aforementioned unions indicated in a press release that the draft regulation of the SIE must have the purpose of “protectpromote and regulate” the distributed generationin accordance with Law 57-07 on Renewable Energy Incentives and Special Regimes.
They claimed that the regulation “recognize and guarantee the right of every person to profit of the sun without prior permissions and without any payment for using this right“.
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Number of people who are in the low consumption sector, 700 kilowatts per month.
They proposed the ratification of the net meteringto ensure that users of solar panels will pay the same price for the electricity that they inject into the electrical distribution networks, which due to electricity that they consume.
The associations explained that this is important because, of the 16,707 users that have installed solar panels about ceiling –an amount that they described as low, given the 17 years that the incentive law has been in force–, “only a hundred are in the low consumption sector, of less than 700 kilowatts per month.”
- Due to this, they understand that the collection of charges to users of low voltage for the use of electrical networks, and the requirement of permits for the installation of solar panels –two actions proposed in the project regulation of the SIE–These are measures that are far from encouraging the massification of this type of renewable energy.
Likewise, they rejected the retention of 25% annually of the accumulated credits for the users for the installation of this energy, paying it “at a much lower price than the one paid for it to the EDE (Energy Distribution Companies). Electricity)”, and they valued the sanctions that proposes the regulation to the users as “anti solar panels“.
