Dutch power suppliers are arbitrarily setting net-metering tariffs for photo voltaic installations by benefiting from a authorized vacuum. Nonetheless, Dutch PV analyst Peter Segaar says that present tariffs stay engaging.
Consumentenbond, a Dutch client affiliation, has revealed that Dutch power provider Eneco plans to cut back the net-metering tariff it pays to rooftop PV system house owners from €0.56 ($0.56)/kWh to €0.09/kWh. Against this, Sweden-based Vattenfall, which additionally operates within the nation, has determined to extend the tariff from €0.07/kWh to €0.168/kWh.
“The Netherlands Authority for Shoppers & Markets (ACM) had beforehand said that this tariff should be no less than 70% of the fundamental electrical energy costs,” the affiliation mentioned. “However pending new providions, these pointers not applies. And power corporations make good use of this by paying customers a decrease price.”
Sandra Molenaar, the director of Consumentenbond, mentioned that the brand new provisions additionally set a brand new minimal. Nonetheless, the legislation is not going to go into impact till 2025.
“We, subsequently, name on the federal government to point precisely a minimal threshold as quickly as potential, in order that we do not have to attend for the brand new legislation to come back into impact,” mentioned Molenaar.
A latest research performed by the affiliation has additionally revealed that half of all power suppliers provide an excessively low tariff for surplus solar energy. 5 suppliers even pay lower than 15% of the fundamental electrical energy worth.
Based on Dutch photo voltaic analyst Peter Segaar, Dutch power suppliers are presently awarding tariffs between €0.07/kWh and €0.66/kWh – a variety he sees as appropriately remunerative.
“These are good costs for photo voltaic households, with which they will accomplish a comparatively quick pay-back time for his or her PV installations,” he advised pv journal. “All households that produce a surplus, don’t pay any power taxes or the so-called SDE levy, nor VAT, for their very own yearly consumption. Moreover, because of interventions by the fourth Rutte cupboard, because of the excessive market costs for electrical energy and fuel, additionally all photo voltaic households, will obtain a big amount of cash from the Ministry of Finance this 12 months, the so-called power tax compensation. That quantities, presently, to a big sum, of just about €682 excluding VAT.”
In June, the Netherlands Authority for Shoppers and Markets (ACM) started investigating whether or not power suppliers are shopping for surplus solar energy from prosumers beneath the nation’s net-metering regime at decrease tariffs than what is taken into account a “cheap worth.” Based on the latest statistics from the Central Company for Statistics (CBS), on the finish of 2021 there have been round 1.58 million Dutch households that had been geared up with rooftop PV methods.
The Netherlands Environmental Evaluation Company lately estimated the nation may attain 27 GW of put in PV capability by 2030. The report’s authors mentioned the deliberate phasing out of internet metering for rooftop PV was extra prone to affect the kind of tasks put in after 2023 than general volumes.
The Netherlands reached a cumulative put in PV capability of 14.3 GW on the finish of 2021, in line with the Dutch Central Company for Statistics. The Dutch photo voltaic market grew by 3.3 GW of newly deployed capability final 12 months. By comparability, newly deployed PV methods hit 2.93 GW in 2020, 2.57 GW in 2019, 1.69 GW in 2018, and 853 MW in 2017.
