Assessing the Role of Electricity Sharing in Meeting the Prerequisites for Receiving Renewable Support in Latvia
Sustainability 2024
Ļubova Petričenko, Anna Mutule, Ivars Zālītis, Roberts Lazdiņš, Jevgeņijs Kozadajevs, Darja Mihaila

Active customers play a critical role in the successful implementation of support schemes, paving the way for the emergence of an energy community. This analysis explores the cooperation among active customers and the implications for developing energy communities. Furthermore, the motivations for consumers becoming active customers in the context of Latvia are illuminated, while also exploring the broader context of navigating the complex regulatory landscape to promote self-consumption. In contrast to prior studies, which often focus on individual or homogenous group participation, this analysis uniquely examines collaborative frameworks that incorporate varied customer categories and profiles. This approach not only underscores the role of tailored regulatory structures in fostering self-consumption, but also presents practical policy insights for incentivizing community-based energy models. The findings reveal that individual participation of active customers in support schemes only achieves the minimal self-consumption threshold in 47% of cases. In contrast, membership in an energy community significantly increases this rate, reaching 84%. These encouraging results underscore the importance of promoting energy community membership among active customers, which subsequently demonstrates substantial potential when promoted across diverse load profile categories. Additionally, the integration of photovoltaic and wind turbine technologies consistently improves self-consumption values.


Keywords
active customer; energy community; self-consumption; support scheme; incentive; net billing system; renewables; load profile; self-sufficiency; modelling
DOI
10.3390/su162310495
Hyperlink
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/23/10495

Petričenko, Ļ., Mutule, A., Zālītis, I., Lazdiņš, R., Kozadajevs, J., Mihaila, D. Assessing the Role of Electricity Sharing in Meeting the Prerequisites for Receiving Renewable Support in Latvia. Sustainability, 2024, Vol. 16, No. 23, Article number 10495. e-ISSN 2071-1050. Available from: doi:10.3390/su162310495

Publication language
English (en)
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