The UNEF (Spanish Photovoltaic Union) have presented a document to clarify different points of the self-consumption “Truths and falsehoods about Self-consumption» in the face of nonsense raised by the current government, where it is intended approve a regulation criticized by all the organisms regulators such as CNE, CNC, Council of State, European Union, consumer associations such as OCU, FACUA... However, the government remains immobile and the actors of the system traditional electric are giving a series of messages erroneous, interested and falsified.
One of the first sentences compelling… “The energy efficiency that is achieves with a photovoltaic installation is a saving that can be penalized, just as the use of a energy saving light bulb."
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Not long ago, power generation was reserved for electric companies and they could only resort to the self-consumption of homes and companies without connection to the network. Then, the liberalization of the electricity market allowed anyone to produce electricity, but only to sell it to the network, not to self-supply. However, at the end of 2011, Spain approved a Royal Decree that authorized self-consumption energy, an approach that allowed consumers produce part of the electricity they use in their homes or business.
It has been drawn up by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism a proposal to the Royal Decree of Self-consumption of which subtracts a considerable increase in taxes that affect directly to self-consumption, it will be more profitable to continue paying Kilowatts to the big electric companies that if the we produce and consume ourselves “?”. The aspect with more controversial is the "backup toll".
In a few words the “backup toll” would imply that self-consumers pay more for the maintenance of the system than any of the other agents: producers, traders, transport and distribution or consumers traditional.
The backup toll (which supposedly offsets the savings of the consumer in the energy toll) supposes an increase of tolls for the energy consumed of between 5 and 9% with with respect to those who do not have self-consumption. The self-consumers will pay more system maintenance than traditional consumers, that is, we are going against all renewable policies established by the Community European.
The backup toll makes self-consumption, according to the established terms, it is not attractive. If it was already one investment that required a long recovery period, now becomes completely disproportionate, exceeding even the 35 years for a private consumer, something absurd considering note that the useful life of an installation is around the same years.
We keep succumbing to the big power companies, no It is to be believed that in the times we are in we have some such disastrous renewable policies. Nor that in the World Energy Trilemma Report (Annual Report of the ranking in energy efficiency by the Council World Energy) We are so well placed. Where Is this political will to protect the consumer? By protect our future, by saving energy, by consuming less fossil energy…Where is it?
Access to the Document of Truths and Falsehoods about Self-consumption .
