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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Regulatory Economics Année : 2018

The prosumers and the grid

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Prosumers are households that are both producers and consumers of electricity. A prosumer has a grid-connected decentralized production unit and makes two types of exchanges with the grid: energy imports when the local production is insufficient to match the local consumption and energy exports when local production exceeds it. There exists two systems to measure the exchanges: a net metering system that uses a single meter to measure the balance between exports and imports and a net purchasing system that uses two meters to measure separately power exports and imports. Both systems are currently used for residential consumption.We build a model to compare the two metering systems. Under net metering, the price of exports paid to prosumers is implicitly set at the price of the electricity that they import. We show that net metering leads to (1) too many prosumers, (2) a decrease in the bills of prosumers, compensated via a higher bill for traditional consumers, and (3) a lack of incentives to synchronize local production and consumption.
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hal-01811127 , version 1 (08-06-2018)

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Axel Gautier, Julien Jacqmin, Jean-Christophe Poudou. The prosumers and the grid. Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2018, 53 (1), pp.100 - 126. ⟨10.1007/s11149-018-9350-5⟩. ⟨hal-01811127⟩
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