LAPSE:2023.35011
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LAPSE:2023.35011
Techno-Economic Potential of Urban Photovoltaics: Comparison of Net Billing and Net Metering in a Mediterranean Municipality
Enrique Fuster-Palop, Carlos Prades-Gil, Ximo Masip, J. D. Viana-Fons, Jorge Payá
April 28, 2023
Solar photovoltaic self-consumption is an attractive approach to increase autarky and reduce emissions in the building sector. However, a successful deployment in urban rooftops requires both accurate and low-computational-cost methods to estimate the self-consumption potential and economic feasibility, which is especially scarce in the literature on net billing schemes. In the first part of this study, a bottom-up GIS-based techno-economic model has helped compare the self-consumption potential with net metering and net billing in a Mediterranean municipality of Spain, with 3734 buildings in total. The capacity was optimized according to load profiles obtained from aggregated real measurements. Multiple load profile scenarios were assessed, revealing that the potential self-sufficiency of the municipality ranges between 21.9% and 42.5%. In the second part of the study, simplified regression-based models were developed to estimate the self-sufficiency, self-consumption, economic payback and internal rate of return at a building scale, providing nRMSE values of 3.9%, 3.1%, 10.0% and 1.5%, respectively. One of the predictors with a high correlation in the regressions is a novel coefficient that measures the alignment between the load and the hours with higher irradiance. The developed correlations can be employed for any other economic or demand scenario.
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net billing, photovoltaics, regression modelling, self-consumption, self-sufficiency, urban rooftop photovoltaic economic potential
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Fuster-Palop E, Prades-Gil C, Masip X, Viana-Fons JD, Payá J. Techno-Economic Potential of Urban Photovoltaics: Comparison of Net Billing and Net Metering in a Mediterranean Municipality. (2023). LAPSE:2023.35011
Author Affiliations
Fuster-Palop E: Grupo ImpactE Planificación Urbana SL, Carrer Pedro Duque, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Prades-Gil C: Grupo ImpactE Planificación Urbana SL, Carrer Pedro Duque, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Masip X: Grupo ImpactE Planificación Urbana SL, Carrer Pedro Duque, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Viana-Fons JD: Grupo ImpactE Planificación Urbana SL, Carrer Pedro Duque, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain [ORCID]
Payá J: Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ingeniería Energética, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain [ORCID]
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Energies
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16
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8
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3564
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2023
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2023-04-20
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1996-1073
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