Peru Proposes Unified 30-Year Energy Planning Framework

Peru's Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) published on July 9 a draft supreme decree establishing a unified regulatory framework for national energy planning, with a 30-year horizon. The proposal opens a 20-calendar-day public consultation period and was formalized through Ministerial Resolution No. 270-2026-MINEM/DM.

The initiative aims to standardize methodologies, time horizons, and shared criteria across all planning instruments in Peru's energy sector, from long-term plans to annual energy balances. Until now, the country lacked a unified regulatory umbrella that could present these planning products coherently to investors and operators.

The proposal responds to private-sector pressure. In December 2025, the Sociedad Peruana de Energías Renovables (SPR) warned that regulatory gaps under Ley N.º 32249, enacted to modernize Peru's electricity market, were putting more than $20 billion in renewable energy investments at risk, according to information cited by pv magazine.

According to the explanatory memorandum published by MINEM, the draft decree provides for the creation of the National Integrated Long-Term Energy Plan (PEIN) with a 30-year horizon and a four-year review cycle, in addition to specific short- and medium-term plans. It also mandates the annual publication of the National Energy Balance and, every six years, the Useful Energy Balance.

While the decree does not set capacity targets by technology, it requires planning exercises to incorporate scenarios covering electricity supply and demand, transmission expansion, and flexibility requirements. These exercises will allow modeling of the role of solar photovoltaic generation and battery energy storage systems (BESS) in shifting energy to peak hours and reducing curtailment, according to the terms of the draft.

The regulation complements a parallel ancillary services proposal published by MINEM in April 2026, aimed at enabling storage systems to participate in frequency regulation and reserves. Peru added 454 megawatts of utility-scale solar capacity in 2025, bringing its cumulative total to 952 megawatts, according to sector data compiled by pv magazine.

The decree is designed to give MINEM an institutional architecture for energy planning that reduces regulatory uncertainty and guides both public and private investment, in line with the mandate of Ley N.º 32249 that Peru's renewable energy sector has been waiting months to see implemented.

This article was drafted with artificial intelligence assistance from verified sources and reviewed by a human editor before publication.