Legal restrictions and solutions for local solar pv markets in the Netherlands

Legal restrictions and solutions for local solar pv markets in the Netherlands

Akerboom, S.
Scholten, D.J.

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

2014-12-31

In the Netherlands, household end-users of electricity face several legal restrictions related to the use of their solar photovoltaic installation. The three main restrictions are the demands of the license of supply, unclarity as to program responsibility and regulated distribution tariffs. This paper analyzes these legal challenges further in order to suggest possible solutions. To this end, it investigates to what extent national legal provisions provide restrictions in four different cases of local solar markets, how these cases differ and what the implications of these differences are. Based on the obtained results, the paper explores three possible solutions the mentioned to legal restrictions: a supply license light, a system for local distribution and balancing, and different tax structures.

solar pv
EU and Dutch regulatory framework
legal restrictions and opportunities

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CRNI conference 2014: Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, Brussels, Belgium, 07 November 2014

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