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Chiles new Minister of Energy announces that after the new projects are registered until April 8, they will be analyzed and reviewed and there will be six months for amendments.
The Ministry of Energy entered a regulatory amendment to Supreme Decree 88 to allow Small Distributed Generation Projects (PMGD), with the entry of their construction applications until April 8, to have certainty about the review of their background and a meritorious analysis of the information they enter, with a term of six months to correct observations.
Within the framework of the 15-year anniversary event of the Chilean Solar Energy Association (Acesol), the new Minister of Energy, Claudio Huepe, announced a key change in the DS 88 regulation whose objective "is to allow the procedures that must be carried out for the review of all the antecedents they have the necessary time and that they are done correctly and with the slack that is required”.
"The number of projects presented as of April 8 will probably be very important, so the logical way is to leave a defined time for their review, since we want to provide certainty that all projects will be reviewed correctly and specifically," he said.
Huepe stressed that they are allowing "all distributed generation projects that contribute to the system to enter now and, as a background issue, we are generating a process of transparency in the public sector in which the State plays its role."
Carlos Cabrera, president of Acesol, who had requested that the entry of applications be extended until April to ensure the financing of a greater number of PMG and PMGD projects , expressed his satisfaction upon learning of this information. "We are very happy because this was an uncertainty that came from the end of the last administration and with this new administration, the truth is that we are pleasantly surprised with the speed of its action."
The representative of the Chilean solar companies highlighted the importance of distributed generation and recalled the goal that they have set for themselves, so that 30% of the supply in the electrical system comes from these decentralized projects in 2040, in addition to needing a "deep reform to the distribution segment that precisely accompanies the growth of distributed resources”. |
