Brazil sanctions new legislation to encourage local generation of clean and sustainable energy

Stimulating sustainable development, the Brazilian government instituted the new legal framework for Distributed Generation, which is electricity generated by consumers e.g. domestic solar panels.

Distributed generation grew by 316% in the last two years, reaching 8,550 (MW) by the end of 2021. This is about 5% of all the current installed capacity of electricity generation in the country.

Last year, the Energy Research Company published a study in which it projects a growth of 30 (GW) of the Distributed Generation of energy in the next 10 years. Additional investments in this scenario would be BRL 120 billion between 2022 and 2031.