He Self -consumption enables consumers to produce and consume their own electricity. It is an increasingly relevant vector in the energy transition because it promotes electrification, while enables consumers and contributes to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
Weld Energy communities are a way to organize among citizensCompanies, SMEs and/or local authorities to make the decision about the production, management and use of electricity, with the aim of improving social, ecological, economic and collective.
Self -consumption in the form of energy communities
The Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE), Depending on the Ministry of Innovation, Industry, Trade and Tourism, focused Electricity in Communities for Renewable Energy (Cell)endowed with five million euros.
This has been emphasized by the general director of Energie en Mijnen, Manuel Argüelles, in a meeting for collective and community energy, where he participated To analyze the strategic lines that you develop The generalitat in this area.
The head of energy has emphasized the role of energy communities that make “citizens and companies an active part of the system” because they can organize themselves to “produce, Self -consumption, managing and storing your own energyThe generation of energy, environmental, economic and social benefits for its members or the places where its activity is performed ”.
For the owner of energy, local energy communities’ are an important element in the energy transition because they form a crucial piece for reach the decentralization and democratization of energy systems“.
In his opinion, energy communities and self -consumption, both individual and collective, “They imply deep changes in the energy model And its development directly affects the improvement of the competitiveness of companies and, in the case of households, it helps savings in the energy bill ”.
That is why IVACE+I Energy supports up to 45 % Starting with renewable energies or remaining energies, in the regime of communities From renewable energy, with a maximum of 200,000 euros per project.
It is a rule, as explained by the general director of Energy Manuel Argüelles, aimed at ‘Elke Renewable energy community or energy communityMunicipalities, as well as the communities of owners and cooperatives ”.
Argüelles emphasized that they supported in total More than 400 projects promoted by energy communities In the past three years and it has improved that this type of initiatives will continue to support by 2025 for which the publication has a new call for help in March, endowed with five million euros.
Currently, the Valencian community has about one hundred local energy communities and, as detailed by the director, Ivace+I Energy is being worked to promote the interest of society in society in society Energy communities and streamlining and facilitating its development, Simplification of administrative processing.
The program and its characteristics
The specific IVACE+I Energy Support program Subsidies up to 45 % of the costs of Photovoltaic solar energy facilities, for collective generation and self -consumption. However, the intensity of aid can be increased by a maximum of 10 percentage points in the case of companies on medium -sized companies and with a maximum of 20 percentage points for small companies, municipalities, public entities and non -profit institutions.
It is considered a community for renewable energy, the legal entity based on an open and voluntary participation, autonomous and effectively controlled by its members, located in the vicinity of the projects owned by the group, those natural persons, SMEs whether local authorities are, including the municipalities, and what Develop projects for renewable energy, energy efficiency and/or sustainable mobility.