Neuquén opens solar self-supply

What changed

Neuquén adhered by provincial Law 3297 (enacted 08/11/2021, promulgated 09/01/2021) to national Law 27.424 "Regime for the Promotion of Distributed Generation of Renewable Energy Integrated into the Public Electricity Grid" and its complementary rules. The provincial law is short (5 articles): Art. 1 adhesion; Art. 2 the enforcement authority is determined by the Executive; Art. 3 repeals arts. 4, 8 and 13 of provincial Law 3006/2016; Art. 4 orders regulation within 60 days. The regulation only came via provincial Decree 2325/2023 (11/16/2023), which designates as enforcement authority the General Secretariat and Public Services (with EPEN as distributor/operator) and approves three Annexes. The Annex sets up the concrete operating regime:(1) the grid user can install renewable equipment for self-consumption with surplus injection;(2) User-Generator categories by capacity — UGpe (up to 3 kW, low voltage), UGme (3 kW to 300 kW), UGma (300 kW to 2 MW) — with a cap of 2 MW per Supply Point ("the Grid Coupling Power of the Distributed Generation Equipment may not exceed TWO megawatts (2 MW) at a single Supply Point");(3) compensation under a net-billing model administered by the distributor;(4) bidirectional meter;(5) a project signed by an electrical engineer licensed with the Neuquén Engineers Council and installation by qualified installers;(6) a "Community Distributed Modality" already provided for in the 2023 Annex itself (a contract linking the distributor with Community User-Generators and including the case of horizontal-property condominium associations / real-estate complexes). The regime is one of technical authorization and billing: the Annex does NOT contain provincial tax exemptions (Turnover Tax/Stamp/Property). The cap expansion to 12 MW comes from national rules (Res. SE 235/2024), not from the provincial rule. verif · Jan 2026 ↗

In force

Law 3297 in force from its promulgation (09/01/2021); the regime became operational with the regulation of Decree 2325/2023, which takes effect from its publication in the Official Gazette (signed 11/16/2023). EPEN authorized the province's first user-generator in August 2025. prob · Jan 2026 ↗

Who it affects

Users of Neuquén's distribution grid (households, businesses, SMEs, industry, farmers, horizontal-property condominiums) who want to self-supply with renewable energy and inject surpluses; EPEN as the distributor obliged to receive the injection and settle the net balance; and —key to the observatory's thesis— the ecosystem of installers: electrical engineers licensed with the Neuquén Engineers Council, qualified installation companies, importers/distributors of panels, inverters and certified bidirectional meters. prob · Jan 2026 ↗

The norm

Provincial Ley 3297 (passed by the Legislatura del Neuquén on Aug 11, 2021, enacted by Decreto 1486/2021 on Sep 1, 2021), joining national Ley 27.424. Regulated by provincial Decreto 2325/2023 (signed Nov 16, 2023, EX-2022-01256919-NEU-EPEN), which approves the annex IF-2023-02415350-NEU-EPEN (Annexes 1, 2 and 3). Enforcement authority: Secretaría General y Servicios Públicos (Ley de Ministerios 3190); operating distributor: Ente Provincial de Energía del Neuquén (EPEN). It repeals arts. 4, 8 and 13 of provincial Ley 3006/2016. The community scheme is already defined in the annex to Dto 2325/2023: the January 2026 community distributed-generation rule now circulating is not from Neuquén, it belongs to the province of Buenos Aires (Res. 17/2026). verif · Jan 2026 ↗

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