The Parliament’s Committee for Energy and Fuels has reached
an agreement for a unified text of the net metering scheme that is expected to
finally support residential and commercial PV and other distributed generation
renewable sources across the country.
Argentina may soon have its first regulatory framework for
distributed generation from solar and renewable energy sources.
According to the local renewable energy industry body Cámara
Argentina de Energías Renovables (CADER), the Committee for Energy and Fuels at
the Chamber of Deputies has reached an agreement for a unified text of the
future law, which is expected to authorize the sale of excess power to the grid
from renewable energy power generators for residential, commercial and
industrial use.
In order to accelerate the legislative process of the new
law, the Committee for Energy and Fuels and the Committee for Finance and
Budget will discuss details of the new regulation in a plenary meeting that
will take place at an unspecified date in August.
“We support the new law draft as it establishes a conceptual
change in the energy system, which will enable us to bring together production
with consumption,” said the president of CADER Marcelo Álvarez. The association
has urged the Parliament to approve the law by the end of this year.
The law draft was already approved by several MPs over the
course of this year: Juan Carlos Villalonga (Cambiemos), Luis Bardeggia (Frente
Para la Victoria), Néstor Tomassi (Bloque Justicialista) , Gustavo Bevilacqua
(Federal Unidos por una Nueva Argentina), and Jorge Taboada (Chubut Somos
Todos).
Argentina is currently supporting solar and renewables
through an auction scheme for large-scale projects. In the two
tenders held last year, the country’s Ministry of Energy and Mines selected
59 projects with a combined capacity of 2,423 MW. Overall, 916 MW of solar
projects were awarded through the two bidding rounds.
Round 2 of the RenovAr program is expected to be launched
this year. Through this round, the Argentinean government expects to allocate
around 1.5 GW and 2 GW of renewable energy generation capacity.
Currently, renewables represent 1.8% of the energy mix in
Argentina. The country has set an objective of having renewables make up 20% of
its energy mix by 2025.
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