ARESEP approved distributed generation rates

This Aresep release was published using machine translation.

Bull. 63-2023, September 11. The Public Services Regulatory Authority ( ARESEP ) approved the rates required to facilitate the integration of distributed generation, as provided in Law 10086.

This Law enables a series of distributed generation modalities for self-consumption, the storage of electrical energy, as well as the possibility of purchasing and selling electrical energy between distribution companies and distributed generators.

Based on technological changes, distributed generation allows a house, a hotel, a condominium, a free zone, an industry, a shopping center, as an example. can generate electrical energy to partially or completely satisfy its own electricity needs.

For this reason, distributed generation brings with it a new actor, “prosumers,” which is the word used to describe consumers who produce electrical energy for self-consumption.

With this model, the traditional electrical model of having a company that generates in a power plant and at the other end, the users who receive and pay for that energy, is decentralized.

What Distributed Generation does is take advantage of the technological changes that have occurred, by enabling the possibility for consumers to generate the energy they need and thus meet their needs (partially or totally).

Law 10086 for the Promotion and Regulation of Distributed Energy Resources enabled several modalities for distributed generation:

• Self-consumption, without delivery of surpluses.
• Self-consumption, with delivery of surpluses.
• Island operation
• Energy storage

This Law gave the Regulatory Authority the responsibility of issuing the regulatory instruments required to promote an intelligent, efficient and safe integration process of the energy resources distributed in the National Electric System (SEN).

This tariff setting is based on the RE-0076-JD-2023 methodology, approved by the Board of Directors in May 2023. After the public hearing process, the Energy Administration approved the setting for the first time of the rates for: interconnection, access, purchase and sale of surpluses and recognition of costs to distribution companies.

These rates will be published in La Gaceta and will come into effect on October 1, 2023, to facilitate the implementation of distributed generators throughout the country.