Study on mapping of regulatory frameworks and barriers for individual and collective renewables self-consumption in EU Member States

This report presents the findings of the project "Mapping of regulatory frameworks and barriers for individual and collective renewable self-consumption in EU Member States", carried out for DG ENERGY, European Commission, between January and December 2023. It shows that EU directives, recommendations and guidelines address some of the key challenges and barriers to the installation of new distributed generation and optimisation of self-consumption behaviours, as well as providing the framework for national actors to support self-consumption more widely. However, Member States, National Regulatory Agencies (NRAs), and private market actors could do significantly more to speed up the installation of distributed generation for self-consumption and to facilitate a more active participation of self-consumers, so that the full benefits of self-consumption can be realised. The report develops a set of recommendations concerning: the definition of self-consumption; permitting procedures; the phasing out of net metering schemes; dynamic pricing arrangements and Time-of-Use tariffs for the energy and network cost components of the energy bill; planning of the distribution Systems; alternative grid connection agreements; the deployment of storage, Building and Home Energy Management System.