the grid. Note that the assessment of the self-
consumed energy is crucial in the framework of the
renewable energy community, since the feed in tariff
rewards the electricity self-consumed. Two scenarios
are considered, one based on the renewable energy
community relying only on the diffuse photovoltaic
installation. The second one is based on an energy
community adopting the diffuse photovoltaic
installation and a lithium-ion battery.
The main findings of this research are condensed
below.
• The photovoltaic adoption leads to a
reduction of the primary energy
consumption of the renewable energy
community by 32%.
• The self-consumed energy balances 26% of
municipality load for the scenario relying
only on photovoltaic. The self-consumed
energy matches almost 29% of the load of
the municipality for the scenario adopting
photovoltaic and battery.
• The renewable energy community policy is
useful in making such investments very
profitable. In fact, due to incentives the
achieved simple payback is extremely
limited. The first scenario achieves a simple
payback of 4.0 years and the second scenario
reaches a simple payback of 13.5 years.
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