The accesses of self consumption to the electrical grid in Catalonia They shot up last year to 289% compared to the previous year, according to data from the subsidiary of Endesa, e-distribution. In a single exercise, access to the network of 36,500 self-consumption against the 9,400 of 2021.
As a consequence, 2022 closed with a total of 50,043 active self-consumption facilities connected to the distribution network of the company in Catalonia. And the growth has continued this year until reaching 60,000 at the end of February.
The installed power at the end of last year amounted to 857.6 megawatts (MW), “one third of all self-consumption power connected to Endesa’s distribution network throughout the country.” The figures show “the growing momentum of self-consumption” accelerated by the context of high prices derived from the war in Ukraineia.
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Of the total, around 99% are self-consumption with surpluses, which dump the energy that is left over to the network. The remaining 1% are self-consumption without surplus. The vast majority are individual self-consumption, compared to 106 collective self-consumption.
Andalusia and Catalonia They concentrate 86% of the active self-consumption in the e-distribution area and 74% of the installed power. Canary Islands and Aragon have the largest year-on-year increases, with increases of more than 300%, and baleares It has one of the highest ratios, with one self-consumption facility per 190 inhabitants.