To organise solar panels on residential buildings It is an opportunity to significantly reduce your electricity bill, and what’s more, the law makes these installations easier. However energy distribution companiesThe person who is supposed to do the paperwork appears to be deliberately complicating the transition to clean energy, according to one of Spain’s largest collective self-consumption organisations.
Energy distribution companies They delay administrative procedures, sometimes up to a year As explained at a press conference by Ecooo’s Self-Consumption Coordinator Laura Feijoo and Luis Esteban Rubio of the Department of Employment with the Value of this eco-social asset, collective self-consumption facilities should not exceed two months. Next year will mark 20 years of promoting energy and economic action from an environmental and social perspective.
Experienced ecosocial organization builds twice as many forces in 2023 than last year Although the number of facilities and electricity in general decreased, three times more families were reached compared to 2022. Ecooo executives emphasize that the reason for this growth at Ecooo is to be found in the commitment to collective self-consumption.
Therefore, one of the future goals is to develop local energy communities (CEL) and Having an energy community in every neighborhood of Madrid and every town in Spain Let’s let people manage their own energy. Therefore, Getafe city council is promoting a local energy community to reduce energy poverty in one of the neighborhoods with the lowest average income in the municipality, an action with which Ecooo also collaborates.
Europe’s largest collective self-consumption is in Rivas Vaciamadrid
Here the project stands out ‘La Pablo Renewable’ in Rivas Vaciamadrid (Madrid Community), Ecooo successfully completed and 514 families participated in Europe’s largest collective self-consumption project, 1,800 panels The installation will produce 1,286,982 KWh of energy per year.
Again, Feijoo explained that it was necessary to launch a campaign to appeal to Unión Fenosa.Efe Verde reported that the distributor responsible for activating the installation in order to speed up the administrative procedures and comply with the deadline established by law, nowadays there are two months in which these problems must be resolved.
It is estimated that Each family invested an average of around 2,000 Euros for a KW of power “clearly visible on the invoice” and a payback period of 5 to 7 years.
In 2023, 365 people invested their savings in renewable energy plants nationalized by Ecoo; During this period, the organization signed 520 contracts, distributing 2.3 million euros (15.6 million over the entire life of the organization) and avoiding approximately 2,000 tons of CO2. 2023 (more than 53,000 tons since the company’s founding).
Self-consumption slows growth after record year 2022
According to data recorded by the Spanish Photovoltaic Association (UNEF), which is the majority association of solar energy in Spain and currently has more than 815 companies, 1,706 MW of new solar energy installed capacity was installed in self-consumption facilities in 2023.
This figure represents a decrease compared to 2022 figures, which was a record year for installations globally. However, 2023 was still much higher than the already very important 2021 figures.
In particular, according to UNEF, industrial self-consumption increased the most in 2023 with new installed capacity of 1,020 MW (-13% compared to 2022), followed by the residential sector with 372 MW (-54% compared to 2022) . 2022), the commercial one of 291 MW (-42% compared to 2022) and finally the isolated one of 23 MW (-8% compared to 2022). These data indicate a 32 percent decrease in the growth rate compared to 2022 and a 42 percent increase compared to 2021.
Additionally, approximately 84,545 new self-consumption residential facilities were produced in Spain in 2023.
There is an explanation for the decline recorded last year: “This trend corresponds to a year corresponding to a peak in self-consumption, in which growth in the previous two years was supported by an existing situation motivated by high energy prices arising as a result of energy consumption. Geopolitical crisis in Ukraine and aid for self-consumption According to this employer, it is “covered by COVID-19 Recovery Funds.”
The gradual decline in energy prices following the fears that emerged in 2022 returned the increase figures to a more stable trend: “The self-consumption situation in Spain Loss of citizens’ perception of high energy pricesAccording to José Donoso, director general of UNEF, the decrease in the purchasing power of families due to the increase in inflation and the exhaustion of the aid envisaged under the Recovery Funds.
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