The Negociado raises the CBES default from 20 to 30 percent of the battery

On June 12, 2026, the Negociado de Energía resolves in docket NEPR-MI-2026-0002. It approves the June 8 joint motion of Sunrun, Tesla, and SunStrong: default enrolled capacity in Customer Battery Energy Sharing goes from 20 to 30 percent for auto-enrolled customers. The regulator places the change toward more than 120 MW of virtual power plant (VPP) in 2026, against a generation shortfall and a 36.9 LOLE from LUMA's study. Those three magnitudes — 20 to 30, 120-plus MW, 36.9 — are from the PDF.

On June 1, NotiCel had covered the persistent blackout risk from load shedding: LUMA told the Negociado about 36.9 days of shedding in FY2026. This order's 36.9 LOLE and those 36.9 shedding days are neighboring figures with distinct units: one is expected load loss from the study; the other, shedding days. They are not averaged. On June 1, NotiCel also recounted that the temporary-generation contracts the Junta approved May 8 remained unsigned; on June 2, El Nuevo Día covered Power Expectations' final authorization. This battery order does not substitute those thermal megawatts.

Nor is it Xcala Strategies' third-party microgrid that the Negociado took notice of the same June 12, docket NEPR-CT-2026-0003, another URL. CBES is a residential-battery program; the CHP microgrid is an electric-company registration. Two acts, one calendar.

There is here no count of auto-enrolled customers nor a price of the battery kilowatt-hour. What remain are the 30 percent, the 120 MW of VPP, and the 36.9 LOLE. The PDF is at the foot. This is not original reporting.

Source: Negociado de Energía. https://energia.pr.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2026/06/20260612-MI20260002-Resolution-and-Order.pdf