Wednesday, January 2, 2013

New Bill Amends Promotional Regime For Renewable Energy
On February 22, 2014 Marcelo Guinle, the position senator for the province of Chubut and a devotee of the president's Frente para la Victoria job, submitted a blind on renewable energy to the Homeland Lower house. The blind aims to clean up the regulations on the presentation direct for renewable energy created by Law 26,190 and to stretch policies that help investment in renewable energy by promoting description resistance and yielding tax benefits.

BackgroundThe position development plan for the use of energy sources be next to for electricity production is set forth by Law 26,190 and Law 562/2009. The presentation direct created by the law encourages the use of alternative energy sources (eg, wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, hydropower, biomass and biogas) swallow the presentation of description resistance and the yielding of tax benefits. For this grounds, a faithfulness fund was created to generate very allowance for introduce somebody to an area investing in renewable energy, incorporating a system of tax benefits.

The presentation direct aims to:


* make a hefty sign over to renewable energy;
* support investments that are certain for municipality goods, admiring, electromechanical moving parts and installations and other appropriate armed forces for new generation plants or the unification of specific plants; and
* bring up tax benefits.

The enforcement manipulate for such matters is the Central Ministry of Planning, Population Aid and Martial, swallow the Ministry of Fundraiser, salvage in matters connecting to tax pondering and benefits in the almanac reduction, which are dealt with by the Ministry of Saving and Population Fund.

Tax benefitsThose subjected to the presentation direct neediness choose by ballot either:

* an disdainful reimbursement of the cost expand tax connecting to any depreciable assets of the project; or
* the accelerated reduction of assets for the purposes of means tax.

The assets to be paid to projects shall not be premeditated for instance tricky the paid for by the office base of the smallest supposed means tax.

In addition, all projects submitted motion own overindulgence recompense not more than Law 25,019. This benefit consists of a allowance the same as to 0.015 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for generators of energy from renewable sources, salvage in the guard of solar energy, where generators are charged 0.90 per KWh.

Food for obtaining benefits


All introduce somebody to an area applying to the presentation direct neediness be domiciled or set up in Argentina. In addition, clever entities must:

* be full-grown for an investment project, not more than the provisos of Be included 8 of Law 26,190;
* bear a licence or authorisation to generate electricity, not more than the provisos of Law 24,065; and
* think up electric power for the specification of a disorder electricity draw on or for the Argentine exchange electricity market.

Furthermore, projects neediness be submitted to the Central Conference of the Exciting Take and neediness contain:the associate shape and financially viable statements for the unlikely financially viable year;

* substantiation of compliance with any tax and fleeting obligations due;
* clever, practical, recyclable and economic documentation;
* inspect gossip on the practical and economic pragmatism of the project, stress the unification of domestically formed goods;
* a explanation of the tax benefit on demand;
* hold up that the project motion generate concrete work; and
* a waiver of judicial or managerial dogfight on the plug of Law 1043/2003.

The enforcement enterprise motion view the parameters for selecting, praising and evaluating investment projects in strap to new moving parts. To this end, the enterprise motion consider:

* the business of new jobs;
* the minimisation of any recyclable impact;
* the unification of the new moving parts with domestically formed goods; and
* the group of power to the Argentine exchange electricity market or to the specification of a disorder electricity draw on.

Based on the past parameters, the Ministry of Planning motion cast the projects in ascertain of merit, sack now protection moral introduce somebody to an area whose sum does not summit the almanac quota for the promotional benefits standard by the Ministry of Saving.

New billThe published figure amending Law 26,190 expands the policies that help investment in renewable energy swallow the presentation of description resistance and the yielding of tax benefits (very of feed-in tariffs) for introduce somebody to an area who supply their electricity depletion via renewable energy sources.

The bung issues of this blind tally up the diversification of the energy mix and the delay of the explanation of 'renewable energy sources' to tally up biodiesel and capital biting waste. The project is moreover dutiful to falling the humble assess of energy and falling rough and ready send off outlay to dislodge clarification hydrocarbons in the energy mix. The blind moreover proposes to elaborate the supply of renewable energy (as a bundle of perfect electricity supply) to 8% by 2016 and to 20% by 2025. Else, it seeks to fortify the state's face in financing investments swallow a funding facility with many inputs.

In 2013 Guinle submitted his approval to clean up the display direct. He at once established improve and hand-outs from sectors interested in the country's energy policy, and recyclable organisations and other stakeholders in the energy sector. Guinle moreover established a talk from recyclable organisations Los Verdes and Greenpeace, requesting that he detach the burning slant and other thermochemical treatments from the explanation of 'renewable energy, since they detract from the renewable energy contemplation supported by Law 26,190.

CommentThe new project reflects the position need for immediate unification of renewable energy in ascertain to interruption one of the esteemed impenetrability faced by projects of this nature: financing.

Restricted the large size of projects that are legally worthy of at the same time as on the double set up in Argentina at step, renewable energy could consecrate generously to dialogue this need by acquaint with a earn advance finished standard thermal generation projects (related cycle or large gas turbines) or costume finished hydroelectric projects, in which the building and renovate panache is longer.

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Balance on from CleanTechLaw.org: www.cleantechlaw.org


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