Self-consumption Configurations Analysis

In the next it will be increasingly possible to produce energy closer to where it is consumed, extending the transformation of passive consumers into active consumers, either directly or through aggregations. Recent European Directives highlighted the role of the end-users as active players of the system. An important aspect to be considered in this new system is how to share the electrical energy. The goal of the paper is to define possible rules that can be adopted in Italy and specify the concept of self-consumption. This will be done by describing the electrical aggregate infrastructure that can be implemented in the European countries or could be in the next future and defining the differences between virtual self-consumption and instantaneous self-consumption.