The French parliament has adopted a draft law on
self-consumption of electricity from renewable energy sources.
The law proposed back in July 2016 provides a legal
framework for self-consumption of renewables and will introduce a definition of
self-consumption, as well as collective self-consumption. Grid operators will
also be obliged to help facilitate self-consumption.
Richard Loyen, director general of French renewable energy
association Enerplan, told PV Tech: “The most important [thing] in the law is
the introduction of a new regulation for self-consumption at local level. The
self-consumption is not only allowed for individual customers, but also for
multi-customers (at the scale of a building and small district – limitation at
100kW).”
