Inflation and a extra reasonable electrical energy invoice decelerate self-consumption installations: they fall by 26% in 2024 | EUROtoday

The recognition of self-consumption sources, and particularly, their set up, has suffered a deceleration year-on-year 26% in comparison with the primary quarter of 2024. The financial affect of inflation on households and corporations, along with decrease electrical energy costs after the worst moments of the power disaster, have meant that photo voltaic panels are not seen as a necessity. quick.

This lower is particularly mirrored within the sector industrial with a slowdown of 30%, whereas within the home sector It has been the place it has been least seen, with a drop of 15%. Despite this, photovoltaics is advancing and a 5% of Spanish householders have already put in photo voltaic panels of their single-family dwelling or residence within the final 5 years. To this we should add a 17% of potential customers, as revealed by the X-ray of Self-consumption in Spain 2024, made by the Spanish Photovoltaic Union (UNEF) and corporations They will promote y Aiko.

Regarding this slowdown within the integration of self-consumption in comparison with 2022, Jose Donoso, CEO of UNEF, clarified within the presentation of the report that “it does not mean that there is a crisis in the sector; it is that we were in a very good moment.” Likewise, he has defined that this lower is the pure results of the fluctuations of the sector, which in recent times has expanded as a result of excessive power costs and the help for self-consumption that’s a part of the fondos Next Generation.

In this sense, Donoso recalled that lots of the initiatives for which subsidies had been requested are nonetheless ready to obtain them: “We estimate that half a million projects “have requested a subsidy throughout the Next Generation funds,” continued Donoso, who blames the management of the funds by the Autonomous Communities for the accumulation of these plans.

Despite these data, the report concludes that “the residential photovoltaic self-consumption market is in a interval of maturation and consolidation“. In fact, this diagnosis of the self-consumption sector points to solar energy as “one of many fundamental sources of renewable power within the nation”, with Spain consolidating itself as “one of many European leaders on this sector.” According to UNEF data , in 2023 new photovoltaic energy installations in single-family homes increased their number by 84.545which leaves an installed power of almost 7 GW in Spain. An evolution that, in Donoso's words, leaves “a determine that we might not have dreamed of.”

Neighborhood obstacles

“Three out of 10 customers of one of these power have seen their electrical energy invoice decreased by between 51% and 75%so greater than 70% contemplate that their expectations have been met fairly or rather a lot,” details the report. In the hierarchy of the main attractions of self-consumption, the following order is established: economic savings (60.15%) self-sufficiency energy (40.3%), sustainability (39.8%) and reduction of energy consumption (36.9%). Other aspects such as the availability of aid and subsidiesas fiscal benefitsalthough interesting, are not that popular (20.9%).

While 25% of homeowners are hindered by the investment they must make, living in a neighborhood community It is the main obstacle for almost half of the apartment owners, who are not clear to what extent they can make changes of this magnitude in community properties. “For 44.4% of residence homeowners, the primary barrier to set up is the very fact of dwelling in a block, since they contemplate that this makes their set up tough or inconceivable,” the report points out. For the other 37.6%, the barrier remains community-based: obtaining the approval and cooperation of all neighbors.

This establishes a clear difference in the proportion of those interested in installing solar panels between the owners of single-family homes (14.9%) and apartments (2%). The report states that the knowledge of energy self-consumption and solar energy is proportional to the interest in an installation: “As the extent of information about power self-consumption amongst customers will increase, the financial financial savings on the electrical energy invoice change into extra vital as a contracting driver.”

This awareness of energy self-consumption varies according to the run and is superior in Catalua, Balearics y Andalusia, which also bring together the largest number of current solar panel customers (8%). At the opposite extreme, for both cases, is the Canary Islands (1% of current clients).

For all this, Donoso has stressed the importance of taking measures to consolidate the sector, such as eliminating administrative barriers to self-consumption, and “overlook subsidies” and “transfer to a coverage of tax aid that doesn’t have administration issues.”