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Chilean Acesol wants better rules for PV market

June 11 – Chilean solar power association Acesol called on Tuesday for a regulation that will stimulate the residential market of photovoltaic (PV) installations and criticised the government’s decision to maintain the net billing scheme.

Chile has set a 50% difference between the price paid by consumers to power distributors and the one paid to consumers for PV energy delivered to the grid. For large-scale development of distributed solar generation, the country needs net metering rules, low-interest financial instruments and a special programme for social housing, Acesol said in a statement.

The government took its decision based on a scenario for a 10% share for solar systems, with estimated losses of USD 56 million (EUR 49.9m) a year, which would affect those consumers without systems. The scenario is unrealistic, according to Acesol’s director, Gabriel Neumeyer. He said that even California, an example of net metering, has not yet reached 5% and that energy efficiency cannot be seen as losses.

(USD 1 = EUR 0.892)

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