STA, 25 March 2022 – The federal government has issued a regulation on electrical energy self-supply from renewables that may abolish the online metering idea for photo voltaic techniques that shall be put in place from 2024 in keeping with an EU directive. The regulation additionally ensures new methods to get incentives for electrical energy self-sufficiency, a transfer that comes after a number of NGOs urged this.
The regulation, adopted at Thursday’s authorities session, additionally introduces a brand new regime for self-supply mills with a connection capability of lower than 50 kilowatts. The connection process has been streamlined for the house owners of such installations, the Authorities Communications Workplace mentioned.
The vitality disaster reduction regulation permits households, family communities and small companies to put in an electrical energy generator linked to the constructing’s grid.
The principle benefit of this self-supply system is that the quantity of electrical energy taken from the grid and the quantity put into the grid are balanced out, so the buyer pays solely the distinction if they’ve taken greater than they’ve put into the grid. If they’ve taken much less, they pay nothing besides some prices.
Though the EU renewable vitality directive promotes self-supply, the idea of web metering below the vitality disaster reduction regulation isn’t in keeping with the EU directive on the electrical energy market, which stipulates that sooner or later a grid cost should be levied for all electrical energy taken from the distribution grid.
Because of this, those that enter the self-supply system after 31 December 2023 will now not be eligible for web metering below the brand new regulation.
Nevertheless, the essential idea of particular person and group self-supply stays unchanged or has been upgraded by the act on the promotion of renewable vitality sources and the regulation, because it supplies exemptions and partial exemptions from sure levies, the chance for all end-users linked to the grid to enter the self-supply system, and the chance to obtain funding assist within the type of grants.
The brand new Power Company laws governing the grid cost are additionally anticipated to convey advantages for self-supplying householders and companies, which shall be important as ample incentives will must be supplied to spice up funding in electrical energy self-supply as a lot as potential, the federal government mentioned.
On Monday, two environmental NGOs urged the federal government to offer no less than EUR 100 million in incentives for electrical energy self-sufficiency and an improve of distribution techniques to allow households to generate energy from renewables, notably photo voltaic. They famous the federal government was not pondering long-term in its efforts to mitigate the vitality disaster and was hindering the vitality transition.