General Administrative Provisions For Electric Energy Storage

As informed in our newsletter of May 9, 2024, on May 6, 2024, the Energy Regulatory Commission ("CRE") sent to the National Commission for Regulatory Improvement ("CONAMER") the draft of the ruling whereby the CRE would issue the General Administrative Provisions for the integration of Electric Energy Storage Systems into the National Electric System (the "Energy Storage GAPs"). Following a long approval process in CONAMER, several modifications and various months of waiting, on March 7, 2025, the CRE published the Ruling No. A/113/2024 in the Federal Register, which establishes the GAPs. The purpose of this new regulation is to establish the modalities and general conditions under which the integration of Electric Energy Storage Systems ("ESS") to the National Electric System ("NES") will be carried out in an orderly and economically viable manner, allowing counteracting the variability of intermittent power plants and taking advantage of the products and services