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Self-consumption in America

Decentralized energy: As the U.S. residential solar market slowly but surely moves away from net metering, self-consumption is beginning to emerge as an alternative business model. But many of the initial moves in this direction have not been promising.

By

Christian Roselund

07 Jun 2017

The residential solar market in the U.S. has been built on net metering. While distributed solar markets in Europe, Japan, and China benefited from feed-in tariffs (FITs), in the U.S. this model never caught on and, as a result, the simple one-to-one exchange of electricity from PV systems for grid power has been the rule …

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