The vitality group of Partag’elec
Picture: Partag’Elec
From pv journal in France
New statistics from grid operator Enedis reveal that vitality communities are growing quickly in France. Enedis mentioned their quantity had risen from simply six in 2018 to the top of March 2023 – a determine that had doubled previously 12 months.
Greater than 2,200 customers and greater than 300 producers are actually built-in into native electrical energy manufacturing representing a complete energy of 11 MW, most of photovoltaic origin. Native authorities account for greater than 100 of those communities.
Enedis gave the brand new figures when the French Minister for Power Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher participated within the commissioning ceremony of the vitality group of the Partag’élec in Surzur, a commune within the division of Morbihan in Brittany, in northwestern France.
“I welcome the deployment of vitality communities, made potential because of our help measures,” he mentioned. “This is a wonderful lever for reaching our local weather objectives whereas permitting customers to have entry to aggressive electrical energy.”
The group of Partag’élec, which has been working since November, is likely one of the 22 vitality communities in Brittany, which is likely one of the most dynamic areas on this rising area. Led by Morbihan Energies, this group is linked to the general public electrical energy distribution community managed by Enedis and based mostly on the Linky meter metering system, which verifies flows between producers and customers.
The operation of Partag’élec brings collectively 130 customers, together with 18 buildings of the municipality of Surzur, 107 people and 5 professionals. Collectively, they share electrical energy from a solar energy plant made up of 680 photovoltaic panels with an electrical energy manufacturing capability of 249 kW.
France launched vitality communities in March 2020, after an extended pilot interval. The vitality group idea unites customers and producers of PV vitality geographically in a single unit of self-consumption.
Different European nations, together with Italy, Spain and Portugal, have additionally launched provisions to help the event of vitality communities.
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