Spain’s photovoltaic self-consumption boom between 2019 and 2022 has produced unintended consequences, including a surge of market entrants lacking technical expertise and adequate operational ...

Paris, 2 nd February 2023 – TotalEnergies has reached a new milestone with the signature of 1 GW of green Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for self-consumption on the sites of its B2B customers. This ...

Until 2009, German PV system owners hardly used any of the electricity they generated themselves, as the feed-in tariff for photovoltaic electricity was higher than the price of electricity purchased ...

Scientists have developed a hybrid energy storage system combining lithium-ion batteries with power-to-heat-to-power thermal batteries (PHPS), cutting energy costs by 7 percent and boosting solar self ...

A group of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and the University of Castilla–La Mancha studied real-life self-consumption photovoltaic installations that reflect the current ...

‘With a grid feed-in of just under 60TWh, self-consumption in 2024 accounts for 17% of net electricity generation from photovoltaics,’ the researchers said. Image: Fraunhofer ISE. High power prices ...

Cumulative solar PV self-consumption in Spain reached 9.3GW at the end of 2025. Image: Bill Mead via Unsplash. The rate of installation of new self-consumption PV systems in Spain fell slightly last ...