President Santiago Peña enacted Decree No. 6034, which regulates Law No. 7599, aimed at modernizing the regime for electricity generation from non-conventional, non-hydraulic renewable sources. The measure establishes operational and regulatory rules to boost clean energy projects in the country.
According to the text, the regulation paves the way for self-generation, cogeneration, and distributed generation, allowing households, businesses, and industries to produce their own energy and sell the surplus to the National Interconnected System, provided they meet technical safety and quality standards.
The National Electricity Administration (ANDE) classified the initiative as a strategic advance for the energy sector, as it encourages projects based on sources such as solar, wind, biogas, biomass, and geothermal. The decree also authorizes ANDE to hold international public tenders to purchase energy for domestic supply, in accordance with the Generation Master Plan, or to replace national production in case of expansion of electricity exports.
The state-owned company highlighted that the regulation will help strengthen energy infrastructure and consolidate a more modern, sustainable, and resilient matrix, aligned with the strategic planning of the Paraguayan electricity system with a projection until 2043.