{"id":8165,"date":"2026-02-02T13:24:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mersanlaw.com\/?p=8165"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:26:29","slug":"paraguay-introduces-special-electricity-rate-to-boost-investment-in-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mersanlaw.com\/en\/novedades\/paraguay-activa-tarifa-electrica-especial-para-impulsar-inversiones-tecnologicas\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraguay Introduces Special Electricity Rate to Boost Investment in Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8165\" class=\"elementor elementor-8165\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f49a510 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1f49a510\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e1eb921 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1e1eb921\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Through the <strong>D<\/strong><\/span><strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Decree No. 5306<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">, Paraguay has established a public policy for the artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and data center industries. This measure establishes a special electricity rate, valid for up to 15 years and denominated in U.S. dollars, with long-term contracts and adjustment criteria.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Furthermore, the <\/span><strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Decree No. 5307<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> has incorporated <\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">\u00abPower to X\u00bb<\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> in the policy on converging industries (green hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, and synthetic fuels and kerosene derived from renewable energy), and has established a very high-voltage consumer group with dollar-denominated rates for up to 15 years.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">The <\/span><strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Ministry of Industry and Commerce<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">, as the competent authority, requires development plans that incorporate local value, technology transfer, and talent development, while these decrees leverage Paraguay\u2019s energy advantages to attract investment in digital infrastructure and energy industries.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mediante el Decreto N\u00b0 5306, Paraguay ha establecido una pol\u00edtica p\u00fablica para industrias de inteligencia artificial, computaci\u00f3n en la nube y data centers. Esta medida establece una tarifa el\u00e9ctrica especial con vigencia de hasta 15 a\u00f1os, en d\u00f3lares estadounidenses, con contratos de largo plazo y criterios de actualizaci\u00f3n. Asimismo, el Decreto N\u00ba 5307 ha incorporado&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[98,99,195,196,197],"class_list":["post-8165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novedades","tag-mersan-2","tag-paraguay-2","tag-ia","tag-data-center","tag-hub-tecnologico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mersanlaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mersanlaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mersanlaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mersanlaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mersanlaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mersanlaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mersanlaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mersanlaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mersanlaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mersanlaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}