Priorities for tariff compensation of distributed electricity generation in Brazil

Cláudia Olímpia Neves Mamede Maestri and Maria Elisabeth Moreira Carvalho Andrade

Utilities Policy, 2022, vol. 76, issue C

Abstract: The economic, financial, environmental, social, and regulatory impacts of distributed generation influence energy policymaking. In 2012, Brazilian National Electricity Regulation Agency issued Normative Resolution 482/2012 to regulate the access and compensation of energy produced by micro-generation and mini-generation distributed to electric energy distribution systems. The paper aims to contextualize the history of the Brazilian electricity industry and its focus on centralization to demonstrate the need for expanding decentralized (distributed) generation. It is expected to contribute to the discussion about the decentralization of the natural monopoly from the expansion of distributed energy generation and its regulation. It is also expected to contribute to the discussion on the compensation of distributed generation in the electricity tariff in Brazil considering the regulatory basis/update and additional aspects like prosumer as a new player in the electricity market, diversification of renewable sources in the energy and in the electricity matrix, financing of investments in distributed generation, electricity supply versus GDP growth, and security of electricity supply to the country.

Keywords: Public policies; Distributed generation; Compensation in the electricity tariff; Prosumer; Low rates; Electricity distribution sector in Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2022.101374

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