Cash vs. solar power: An experimental investigation of the remuneration-related design of community solar offerings

Stauch, Alexander; Gamma, Karoline

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111216

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“…In addition to buildings from other studies of the PVSC benefits for customers and prosumers in the EU [4][5][6][7]13,15,[61][62][63], our approach is indebted to specific studies of media representations of, and public engagement with, renewable energy in Spain. In a review of Spanish media coverage of solar PV during the renewable energy market collapse, Heras-Saizarbitoria [45] found that journalists' frequent deployment of metaphors like 'bubble' shifted public discourse about solar PV technologies.…”

Section: Energy Communication and The Benefits Of Pvscmentioning

confidence: 99%

Communicating the Values and Benefits of Home Solar Prosumerism

Wuebben

Peters

2022

Energies

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Clearly and accurately communicating the economic, environmental, and social benefits of solar PV prosumerism poses significant challenges. Previous research shows that government policies and public engagement campaigns can positively impact solar prosumerism; however, little is known about the quality and accuracy of information exchanged between rooftop solar installers and potential prosumers. This study addresses part of this gap with a mixed methods approach. First, a multimodal discourse analysis of installation proposals from seven home solar installers in Madrid shows accurate and reasonable financial benefits alongside incongruent social and environmental benefits. Second, the calculated efficiency of the seven proposed solar installations is compared with the efficiency of four different PVSC solar arrays using actual load and generation profiles. The results show that (i) the high variability of actual household demand on the minute-by- minute level significantly decreases self-consumption rate and profitability in comparison with the rates estimated using hourly or monthly, and (ii) the grouping of households into solar communities should significantly increase self-consumption and profitability. Therefore, using minute by minute time series in home solar estimations would reveal an added value and social benefit that is commonly overlooked. We conclude with recommendations for future research and multimodal communication campaigns that balance benefits of individual prosumerism and community solar.

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Section: Energy Communication and The Benefits Of Pvscmentioning

confidence: 99%

Communicating the Values and Benefits of Home Solar Prosumerism

Wuebben

Peters

2022

Energies

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“…Reference [21] showed that effectiveness of implementation of PV communities would depend on rules for retail competition, authority for utilities to own distributed generation assets, civil society and elected officials-generally complicating the implementation process. Reference [22] showed that policy implementation depends on consumer reaction from solar community offerings, preventing non-acceptance by a specific target group communication plan. Authors of this article suggest that policymakers should introduce effective models, which would remunerate consumers with solar energy instead of financial benefits.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Reference [36] states that market remuneration plays an important role in the terms of profitability-without any additional subsidies, large PV systems with high full load and market remuneration are profitable. Market remuneration impact is also described in [22], which concludes that willingness to buy community PV panels depends on the design of such a remuneration scheme. In addition, self-consumption would increase this measure.…”

Section: Economic Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Reduce the payback period (in some cases even without additional subsidies); Load flexibility directly impacts self-consumption; The optimised proportion between generation and self-consumption decreases costs. [22,36,37] Energy price and tariffs Decisive role, directly/significantly influence payback period. [12,38] Load profile Heterogeneous load profiles gain more cost saving potential, and the system eventually becomes profitable.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Willingness to buy community PV panels depends on the level of remuneration [22], but authors also pointed out that there are different approaches possible, such as how to encourage consumers to participate. According to the study described in this paper, consumers who are involved or interested in the use of green energy and environmentally friendly solutions should be motivated to become a solar community member by nonfinancial means, because money is not their main motivation to use renewables for their energy consumption, but the group of consumers who do not care to use environmentally friendly solutions should be motivated by financial remuneration.…”

Section: Consumer Adoptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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PV Energy Communities—Challenges and Barriers from a Consumer Perspective: A Literature Review

2021

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Renewable energy sources, in particular those based on solar radiation, are growing rapidly and are planned to play an instrumental role in building power systems to reach the 2030 and 2050 energy and climate mitigation objectives. However, new actors have been introduced into the energy field, highlighting the importance of the role of citizens and communities in building such energy systems. To outline the significance of citizens in the development of solar energy communities and to describe the benefits of and barriers to their implementation so far, a comprehensive literature review has been carried out based on 64 thoroughly selected, reliable scientific publications (published within 2015–2021), revealing the latest trends, technologies and research in this field. The research focuses on four consumer interest areas: policy, economic, technical and social, covering the following subsections: policy, trading model, economic assessment, business model, energy management, demand response, modelling tools and consumer adoption. Within each subsection the conducted review seeks to answer the questions related to the further development and implementation of PV energy communities, considering consumer needs and revealing the possible solutions.

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