In the latter years the world faced an amazing adoption of renewable energy sources, mainly solar and wind. Initially, the rapid advancement of these technologies was driven by strong incentive programs, first in Europe and therefore in the rest of the world; in parallel, technical improvements and economies of scale of manufacturers, mainly Asian, have allowed a rapid decline of renewable electricity costs. Solar penetration is rapidly growing Today, in different parts of the world, renewable energies are already cheaper than fossil fuels, but there are several cases where their adoption can be stalled by uncertain self-consumption rates of the energy produced. In fact, with current tariffs scheme, a very important factor for calculating the financial return of a new photovoltaic plant is the percentage of self-consumption. This is due to the big difference between the prices of energy purchased and sold to the local network, so without a […]
