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It certainly is the case in the Netherlands, which has the most or 2nd most Watt peak installed capacity per capita in the world. For households, there still is
by ragebol 2y ago
It certainly is the case in the Netherlands, which has the most or 2nd most Watt peak installed capacity per capita in the world. For households, there still is net metering. A law to abolish that was rejected in February or so.
So, the energy companies came with a penalty for excess power returned, for power beyond the net metering.
So it you use 3000 kWh in a year, but put 4000kWh on the grid in a year, you pay a fine for the 1000 kWh leftover.
Details vary per company and I'm not 100% up to speed on them as I have a dynamic tariff and thus those shenanigans don't apply to me.
The incentive is to self consume as much as possible, but the winter/summer difference makes that hard. IMO, the net metering is still very generous, maybe a better policy would be to just pay market crate for any power delivered to the grid.