Impact of self-consumption and regulatory approaches on the profitability of a grid-connected PV setup plant for a net-zero-emission villa in Morocco
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https://doi.org/10.18686/cest296Keywords:
net-zero-emission house; grid-connected photovoltaic plant without storage; demand-side management; technical monitoring and assessment; financial monitoring and assessmentAbstract
For a bioclimatic villa located in Marrakech, Morocco, electricity and bills were monitored for several years in this study. Energy was aggregated into days and months to be reconciled with monthly bills. Demand-side management, namely shifting electricity consumption to the daytime, improved the investment payback time to acceptable levels. Results are used (i) to analyze financial sensitivity to self-consumption and (ii) to compare the profitability of the actual situation of the villa in self-consumption without redemption of surpluses with other possible regulatory approaches (surplus sales and net-metering).
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