A group of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and the University of Castilla–La Mancha studied real-life self-consumption photovoltaic installations that reflect the current ...

Given high electricity costs in Germany, operators of PV systems see value in consuming generated solar power directly or storing it in battery systems. Fraunhofer ISE has developed a new method to ...

The decrease was driven by the industrial sector, as the residential segment rose due to the Iberian blackout in April. Image: Bill Mead via Unsplash. For the third year in a row, self-consumption ...

Until 2009, German PV system owners hardly used any of the electricity they generated themselves, as the feed-in tariff for photovoltaic electricity was higher than the price of electricity purchased ...

Cumulative solar PV self-consumption in Spain reached 9.3GW at the end of 2025. Image: Bill Mead via Unsplash. The rate of installation of new self-consumption PV systems in Spain fell slightly last ...