Prosumers in the regulatory framework of two EU members: Italy and Spain

This paper focuses on a typical customer with a PV plant and a battery storage by the perspective of two EU members: Italy and Spain. The authors calculate the electricity bill of the considered customer in accordance with the respective legislative and regulatory frameworks. This calculation is a preparatory and preliminary activity for finding relevant differences, if any, that should not exist between EU members. Given the 15-min load profile of a 3kW–3700kWh/yr domestic user, numerical experiments return that the ratio, between the electricity bills in Italy and Spain, relevantly changes with respect the adoption of local generator and local storage.

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