Residential energy efficiency and distributed generation - Natural partners or competition?

摘要: Abstract Residential energy efficiency and distributed generation seem to be natural partners in our journey towards a more sustainable future. A growing range of efficient consumer technologies extraordinary declines photovoltaics system prices has seen household electricity demand fall whilst proportion the remaining load is provided by self-generation. Australia particularly interesting example these developments, with around 15% households now possessing PV while per-capita also fallen markedly. However, existing retail tariffs regulatory arrangements can create mixed incentives for contemplating both options their network service providers. This certainly case net metering that value self-consumption far than exports grid. There are complex benefits created resources significant. In this paper we use real data from Sydney model potential implications tariff on financial attractiveness efficiency. We separately combination implementing Our results highlight how inappropriate may well adversely impact offers not only households, but providers, suggest ways such impacts might ameliorated acknowledging offer network.