The price drop of electricity after the end of the energy crisis caused by the Russian attack on Ukraine And the growing Availability of renewables has made citizens pass the scare for the light of the light and has stopped Layer falling hiring self -consumption facilities That, after the 2022 boom, has been in continuous fall for several years. To reverse this situation, the Ministry for Ecological Transition prepares a Communication campaign to convince the population that self -consumption “It is still worth it “while finishing a new decree that, six years after 2019 that meant its launch in Spain, will put one of its foci on how to get them to get them communities of neighbors or small towns Install plates collectively.
“Self -consumption is not only a matter of the BOE, We have to be able to communicate and continue communicating“I said this week, Miguel Rodrigogeneral director of the Institute for Diversification and Energy Saving (Idae), dependent on the Ministry of the Third Vice President, Sara Aagesenthat for this will launch throughout this year a communication campaign aimed at citizens, SMEs and great industry, to convince them that the generation of electricity from photovoltaic plates “is still worth it.”We have to work in collective and industrial self -consumption “ He added about the new “clear motivation” of the Ministry in this area.
“You have to say more, it’s Good for the pocket, for the planet And because it also puts its grain of sand in the electrification of the demand, “Rodrigo said, referring to the correlation between putting solar panels at home and changing the traditional gas boiler for a heat pump and even going from driving a combustion motor car to an electric vehicle. Rodrigo is the current head of the organism that between 2022 and 2023 distributed 2,000 million European funds that largely made solar panels appear on the roofs of about 400,000 single -family houses Throughout the country and in covers and solar factories and all kinds of companies, when the current Secretary of Energy State, Joan Groizard. With the message that “self -consumption is still a good idea” began to scrub during the V Self -consumption summit that was held in Madrid, where the uncertainty phase that crosses self -consumption was found.
Fiscal sales
He Moment of “Difficulties”It is palpated in the sector and, in addition to trying that citizens and companies not forget self -consumption as an option to save on the electricity bill, the sector asks the ministry for “urgent measures” to enhance it, eliminating “regulatory barriers”, preventing surpluses that are not consumed by difficulties to pour them into the electricity grid and “Economic support, “not in the form of direct aid through fiscal discounts.
“The economic part is critical. The money has reached the final destination and now we are without any support, “said the president of the Spanish photovoltaic union (Onef), Rafael Benjumeawhich asked the Ministry “to seek tools”, which for the sector have to go through “fiscal deductions”, either in the IRPF, in the Corporation Tax or in VAT. “We have claimed it,” added the president of the main collective of the photovoltaic sector. Renewable appa raised in February that self -consumption Relieve 25% in IRPF or societies To stop your fall.
Cheap light but not so cheap
At the moment, in what has been working for an ecological year is in a new decree of self -consumption to “improve”, according to the IDAE director, that of 2019, which for the first time regulated it and made it take off. That year, the discreet installation data began to increase, at an annual 500MW rate of new annual installed power, for burst in 2022, when it was installed almost as much as self -consumption That there was until then. From that year and although with annual figures better than before the boom, it began a decrease that led in 2023 to be 32% lower and in 2024, to return to 26%a more accused trend in the residential type.
The storms of rain and wind and the fall to minimal of the activity during this Holy Week gave a good sample how the price of electricity can be negative. Now, in addition, we start One of the two times of the year in which, in this case, the sun contains prices. But ecological transition warns that this is not the definitive image, that the price can rise again – without going further and cyclically, when heat and air conditioning arrive – and that, although cheaper, electricity remains at high levels. “Prices have not collapsed “warned the director of the IDAE.
According to the report corresponding to March that APPA elaborates, the average price of the electricity market was € 53.09/MWh, 161.79% higher than in March 2024 and the minimum average price per hour was € 22.57/MWh at 2pm and the maximum of € 109.94/MWh at 8pm. However, on March 30 the lowest daily market price of the historical series was recorded,-5,21 €/MWh at three in the afternoon Already throughout the last month there were 72 hours with zero or negative prices and another 29 hours married very low prices, between € 0 and 30/MWh.
New Decree in Treasury
With these wicker, ecological transition wants to boost self -consumption, for which No new direct aids are expected As the rain the 2,000 million of the Next Generation Fund that fell on the roofs Between 2022 and 2023 Because now the idea is rather than, in less amount, they are more directed to concrete technologies or actions.
At the self -consumption summit, technical claims of the sector were heard, such as Once it is possible to share surpluses and the Simplification of proceduresthat the Ministry opens the hand so that self -consumption can exceed the installed power of 50 MW or that, instead, The access power is taken into accountthe difficulties that exist for communities of neighbors or small towns were also common to install solar panels collectively.
The ministry is elusive to reveal what requests in the sector will include in the new decree, but also See a “more sociological” factor What a technician that makes the solar panels not grown on the roofs of the blocks of floors to the same extent as in the single -family houses, but when Spain is a country more than the first than the second. Although ecological transition could give a push “improving” the process of the counters, its deputy director general of electricity, Carlos Redondohe pointed out that the barrier “is not so much regulatory but by conception itself.” Collective self -consumption “is a fundamental development for us, because the large part of the population lives in neighboring communities.”
Of not knowing your neighbor to the undesirable spill
“We do not know how to sell it at neighborhood boards And when you have a roof for many homes, you have to occupy common spaces because, if not, each neighbor has very little and [la factura] Only 5% is lowered and they are not interested, “he reflected on the part of the installers and energy agents Javier Bescós, from Fenie Energyin a discussion in which other members of the sector found the “other barriers”, such as “Putting the neighbors” or pass from a collective self -consumption that until now “between friends and acquaintances” to unknown people sharing self -generated electricity and for those who also expect “tools” of Aagesen.
“That the foundations feel move from the concept of self -consumption to the distributed generation, Shared, “Bescós asked, about the difference between installing the necessary plates for self -supply or putting more to distribute to the neighbors in low voltage.
But the best image of the gymkana That, today, he continues to install solar panels in a block of neighbors was given by the story of the spokeswoman of I am energy, Carolina Collstarting with the difficulty that “we live in a very individualistic society and in many we do not know what our neighbors are called”, with whom, suddenly we want to enter the procey world of making a self -consumption installation, which in the case of collective requires “a lot of pedagogy”, starting with the Farm administrators“that they are not putting anything easy” and for companies installereven without “exhaustive union” about collective self -consumption “and its complexity.” “It is not easy either to find financing And any spill in a community of neighbors is complicated “, in addition to the technical requirements, with different criteria, by the distributors or to pass the technical inspection of buildings, he added.
