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Electricity: the milestone of 100,000 self-consumers passed in France

2021-05-23T20:36:49.943Z


In five years, the number of homes producing part of the electricity they consume has jumped. If the initial investment is cons


France now has 100,000 self-consuming electricity owners, according to the latest counts of Enedis, the electricity distributor and 100% subsidiary of EDF.

They were less than 3,000 in 2015. A symbolic threshold has therefore been crossed, which reflects the growing enthusiasm of the French for “electric autonomy”.

100,000 homes that produce part of the electricity they consume is 380 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity, or one third of a nuclear reactor.

"It's a good start," said Jean-Louis Bal, president of the Renewable Energies Union (SER).

Even if we still have a margin compared to some of our neighbors.

“Starting with Germany, which by 2019 had already exceeded 1.2 million individual installations, or 7.4 gigawatts (GW), the equivalent of 7 nuclear reactors.

Why such an advance across the Rhine?

A price of electricity on average 20% higher;

and battery storage offers that make self-consumption even more attractive.

A capacity of 4 million homes by 2030

"We are seeing a real acceleration," confirms Christian Buchel, Director of Customers and European Territories of Enedis.

While it was still in its infancy in the 2010s, today we connect 30,000 installations per year, individuals and professionals, with considerably shortened commissioning times.

"The deployment of the Linky meter, an essential link in the" smart electricity network "of tomorrow, which now equips 32 million households, has made it possible to go from a commissioning period of one week to less than 24 hours, once the installation is in place.

“Self-consumption is the short circuit of energy,” enthuses Christian Buchel, who also chairs EDSO, the European association of electricity distributors.

Self-consumption electricity infographics

An observation shared by Benjamin Declas, director of EDF ENR: “The last multiannual energy program, or PPE, which determines energy policy in France for the next five years, set the objective of doubling the fleet, ie 200,000 self-consumers by the end of 2023. We have already exceeded the rate of a thousand installations per month.

And 80% of them come with financing solutions.

RTE, in charge of transporting electricity on high and very high voltage lines, goes even further, estimating that the country has the capacity to exceed 4 million self-consumers by 2030.

Investment aid and reduced VAT

“The first motivation is the savings on the invoice, analyzes Jean-Louis Bal. Of course, this requires a significant initial investment, but it can be supported by a series of public aids. »Investment aid, covering around 10% of expenditure, is particularly accessible. A VAT reduced to 10% is also applied for individual installations (with an output less than 3 kilowatt-peak, or kWp). As well as a feed-in tariff by EDF of 0.10 euro per kilowatt-hour (or kWh, the unit making it possible to measure the volume of electricity) reinjected into the network. »By comparison, each kWh counted on our bills costs us 0.15 euros in basic tariff (without off-peak hours). It is therefore today economically much more advantageous to self-consume as much as possible the electricity that we produce,rather than reselling it to EDF.

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“Hence the interest in matching production and consumption as much as possible,” observes Ondine Suavet. This former chemical engineer co-founded in 2014 in Lyon with her brother Virgile MyLight Systems, a start-up specializing in home automation and connected objects. Objective: to optimize the functioning of the electrical appliances of the house. MyLight Systems also offers a “virtual battery”, which makes it possible to “reserve” the overflow of electricity produced by the house, especially in summer, and reinjected into the network, to recover it if necessary, in winter for example. . "Optimized use, efficient equipment, geographical location and a suitable storage solution are the main criteria that justify installation at a private home," says Ondine Suavet.We can then hope to amortize the investment in ten years. "

"I really don't regret"

This is the goal of Jean-Louis, 67 years old.

With his wife, in May last year, he had 20 solar panels installed on the roof of his house in Ambronay (Ain).

Its Linky meter sends it in real time, on a dedicated personal space, all consumption and production information.

“After only one year of use, I really do not regret this investment, enthuses this former retired cook.

It cost me 12,000 euros, but now it allows me to cut my bill in half.

From 2,200 euros previously, I went to a little over 1,100 euros, for equipment guaranteed for 20 years.

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Source: leparis

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