AVALIAÇÃO DOS SISTEMAS INDIVIDUAIS DE GERAÇÃO DE ENERGIA ELÉTRICA COM FONTES INTERMITENTES - SIGFI’s

Abstract

Brazil has the goal of achieving universal access to electricity by the end of 2010 through the governmental program Light for All. Thousands households need access, the great majority living in rural areas far distant from the closest distribution power grid. The big challenge is to adopt appropriate technological, institutional and regulatory solutions to this context. Decentralized or stand-alone power systems have an important role to play in this sense. The Resolution nº 83 approved in 2004 by the Brazilian Power Regulator (ANEEL) was an important regulatory landmark in regulating the use of Individual Power Systems From Intermitent Energy Sources (SIGFI’s) as an alternative to provide electricity access by electricity distribution utilities within their universal access goals. Within some technological options, PV systems has being adoptedby some distribution utilities as an alternative solution to grid expansion. After five years of the Resolution enactment, the present study has the objective of presenting an overview of SIGFI implementation by utilities in consonance to the Resolution nº 83/2004 given the lack of published information about it.