Profitability Assessment of Building Integrated Photovoltaic Systems through Comparative Analysis of Energy Policies using Real Data Sets

The consumers with building integrated photovoltaic (PV) systems have become prosumers, and their profit depends on network regulations, especially in the treatment of surplus electricity. Net-metering and feed-in tariff are the most common remuneration mechanisms for prosumers. Increasing the numbe...

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Published in2024 11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronic and Computing Engineering (IcETRAN) pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors Smajkic, A., Ahmethodaic, L., Huseinbegovic, S., Smaka, S., Gajip, S.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 03.06.2024
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Building integrated photovoltaics
Buildings
Electricity
Energy storage
energy storage system
Investment
Measurement
net-metering
photovoltaic system
Production
Profitability
Remuneration
Tariffs
zero energy export
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Summary:The consumers with building integrated photovoltaic (PV) systems have become prosumers, and their profit depends on network regulations, especially in the treatment of surplus electricity. Net-metering and feed-in tariff are the most common remuneration mechanisms for prosumers. Increasing the number of prosumers can cause various technical problems in the grid, therefore the distribution system operator sometimes imposes legal/regulatory and technical restrictions that are reflected in zero energy export. Integration of the energy storage systems can help with problems arising from these restrictions, but will make the initial investment significantly more expensive. This may negatively affect the profitability of investment. The main aim of this paper is analysis of different regulatory policies and their impact on building integrated PV system profitability. Two profitability metric factors were calculated for the purpose of better policy comparison. For the presented analysis, real data sets of a load demand and PV energy production were used. As an example, the integrated PV system installed at the Faculty of EE University of Sarajevo is analyzed.
DOI:10.1109/IcETRAN62308.2024.10735433