Newsletter ACERA - Febrero 2018

NEWS
MODIFICATIONS TO THE DISTRIBUTED GENERATION LAW
On January 9, the Senate approved unanimously, in its first stage, the Project of the law
modifying Law N° 20,57, on Distributed Generation, also known as net-billing. The
project passed on to the Chamber of Deputies in its second stage, welcoming part of the
modifications proposed by a parliamentary motion.
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The following changes, proposed by the Ministry
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of Energy, were
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approved: a) Increase
the generators’ installed capacity limit from 100 kW to 300 kW, to support the
development of larger self-consumption projects, that benefit mainly productive
activities, and b) reinforce that the aim of the law is to encourage self-consumption, and
not energy commercialization, which is subject to another regulatory framework (PMGD).
To this purpose, the project establishes that surpluses that eventually, after a long time
such as one or more years, could not be deducted from the electricity bill of the
establishment where the generation system is installed, may be deducted from the
electricity bills of other establishments of the same owner (same Unique Tax Number –
RUT) and the same distributing company. If there are no other bills, the amount that was
not deducted will not be lost, but accumulated.
In this regard, ACERA believes that, in general terms, the project is positive and
necessary. However, the way in which self-consumption is reinforced should be
improved, to avoid limiting residential generators from actually receiving the
corresponding payments for their injections. Therefore, the Association will submit its
comments to the Ministry of Energy and the Congress in March of this year.
Fuente: Ministry of Energy
ACERA AND GIZ ORGANIZED A SEMINAR ON COMMUNITY
RELATIONSHIPS IN ENERGY PROJECTS
Electic generation from renewable energies has experienced a significant increase
since 2014, reaching a 44% of the matrix’ installed power. This growth implies the
active incorporation of communities, as a key piece in the development of the sector,
and even for climate change goals. How to start an inclusión process? Which
elements should be considered? How to achieve a rapprochement? In order to
answer these questions and show successful cases, the Ministry of energy, GIZ and
ACERA organized the Seminar “Community Relationship in energy projects:
Strategies and Tools”, focused on the presentation of methodologies and tools that
strengthen and support Community Relationships.
The event was headed by the Undersecretary of Energy, Jimena Jara, who besides
referring to the national energy situation, explained that “as far as participation is
concerned, the Ministry has fostered three elements: a Guide of Standards of
Participation, that has been used in over 50 energy projects; an indigenous chapter
in the 2050 Energy Policy, which included the participation of the 9 native peoples
recognized in Chile; and a policy of sustainable and associative local development
that promotes that local coordination is executed by the State together with the
companies and communities.”