Impact of taxes and investment incentive on the development of renewable energy self-consumption: French household’s case study

Anastasia Roth (1) , Marianne Boix (1) , Vincent Gerbaud (1) , Ludovic Montastruc (1) , Philippe Etur (2)

1 LGC - Laboratoire de Génie Chimique
2 Valorem

Mutations in the energy sector are shifting the production and distribution systems from a centralized to a decentralized model. Within this context, we address the economics of grid-connected Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (HRES) in relation with energy management strategies by considering taxes and economic regulation frameworks. Therefore, we propose a model to perform economic analysis of such HRES formulated as a MILP (Mixed Integer Linear Programming) model in the context of the French regulation. We test it on the case study of an integrated PV installation for French households’ self-consumption, comparing two household sizes: a two persons household with a consumption of 4000 kWh/year and a five persons household consuming 8500 kWh/year; and two solar exposures: one of 1400 h of equivalent maximum production and one of 1060 h. The main results is that the current regulation framework for incentive calculus does not encourage citizens to install a maximum of PV panels as well as it does not guarantee a uniform development of self-consumption infrastructure. Alternatively, we propose a new regulation framework in order to reverse those tendencies.

Mots clés: Hybrid renewable energy systems; Grid-connected; MILP; Modelling; Energy self-consumption

Domaines: Génie chimique; Génie des procédés

Anastasia Roth, Marianne Boix, Vincent Gerbaud, Ludovic Montastruc, Philippe Etur. Impact of taxes and investment incentive on the development of renewable energy self-consumption: French household’s case study. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020, 265, pp.121791. ⟨10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121791⟩. ⟨hal-02650430⟩