José Luis Moreno San Juan is willing to show Marranzini that the GD generates benefits, not losses for the Ede
The director of the School of Energy of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), Jose Luis Moreno San Juanconsidered yesterday that distributed generation, that which is produced with solar panels on the roofs of homes, left profits of US$50 million last year and not losses of US$100 million as indicated Celso MarranziniPresident of the Unified Council of Electricity Distribution Companies.
He said that he had requested an appointment with Marranzini to show him that distributed generation generates benefits for the EDEs, not losses, but that this has not yet been achieved.
He stressed that distributed generation is beneficial for electricity distribution companies, despite the false perception caused by the loss of energy billing through net metering.
He said that this is because 61% of the installed capacity is under demand tariffs, which imply power payments.
He explained that the benefit from distributed generation injections under net metering was US$24.8 million last year, of which US$15.5 correspond to Edenorte, US$7.6 million to Edesur and US$1.7 million to Edeeste.
He considered that distributed generation will increase every day, but it must be properly regulated.
“With distributed generation, EDEs are making money, not losing money“, he stressed.
He said that the goal of those who have solar panels on their roof is not to sell energy, but to stop consuming energy from the EDEs and “maybe that is what they call losses.”
The installed capacity of distributed generation in 2023 was 115 megawatts: 70 in Edenorte, 37 in Edesur and 8 in Edeeste.
