Brazil’s installed solar capacity in the distributed-generation sector, which includes PV plants less than 5 MW, has topped 17 GW. According to ABSolar, the new benchmark represents 98.6% of distributed-generation projects in Brazil, with over 2 million PV systems deployed throughout the nation.
According to statistics from the National Agency of Electric Energy, as of 2023, 21,606 new PV projects with a capacity of less than 5 MW had already been grid-connected in the United States (Aneel). In 2022, the solar distributed power industry will account for 7.27 GW, equivalent to 749,462 PV systems that are linked.
In the previous three months, requests for connection to the electric distribution network from dispersed power projects surpassed 32 GW. In October 2022, just 5 GW were in the pipeline. According to data from the Brazilian organisation of electric distributors (Abradee), distributors received a total of 460 million connection requests for projects under 75 kW and 26,5 million requests for projects between 75 kW and 5 MW.
In a meeting at Aneel’s headquarters, Ricardo Brando, the association’s director of regulatory affairs, stated that Abrandee only anticipated reaching this number in ten years.
