Until 2009, German PV system owners hardly used any of the electricity they generated themselves, as the feed-in tariff for photovoltaic electricity was higher than the price of electricity purchased ...

‘With a grid feed-in of just under 60TWh, self-consumption in 2024 accounts for 17% of net electricity generation from photovoltaics,’ the researchers said. Image: Fraunhofer ISE. High power prices ...

A group of researchers has proposed a new method for the sizing of PV systems that do not rely on an anti-dump system and operate without the possibility of injecting power into the grid. The novel ...

The decrease was driven by the industrial sector, as the residential segment rose due to the Iberian blackout in April. Image: Bill Mead via Unsplash. For the third year in a row, self-consumption ...

The Netherlands is preparing to end its net-metering scheme, prompting two Dutch research institutes to study the potential impact on PV system profitability. They found that increasing ...