Greece has run a public consultation on reforms to rules governing installations for self-consumption that would permit balcony solar up to 800 W.
Greece’s Ministry of Environment and Energy is proposing a series of reforms covering the development, installation and connection of renewable energy installations designed for self-consumption. A public consultation on the reforms ran earlier this month.
The directive includes permitting the installation of balcony solar up to 800 W for the first time. Balcony PV would not be permitted to inject electricity into the grid, the ministry says, and would be subject to safety requirements to protect the grid and other electrical installations. The consultation also covered plans for allowing standalone residential battery storage, which would also be designed exclusively for self-consumption.
Additional reforms plan to facilitate the development of collective self-consumption in buildings such as apartments and residential complexes. It would also allow third parties to develop self-consumption systems on behalf of consumers and introduce the possibility for participants supplied by different electricity retailers to join the same self-consumption scheme.
