How prices guide investment decisions under net purchasing – An empirical analysis on the impact of network tariffs on residential PV

Fabian Arnold (), Samir Jeddi and Amelie Sitzmann
Additional contact information
Fabian Arnold: Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universitaet zu Koeln (EWI)
Samir Jeddi: Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universitaet zu Koeln (EWI)
Amelie Sitzmann: Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universitaet zu Koeln (EWI)

No 2021-7, EWI Working Papers from Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universitaet zu Koeln (EWI)

Abstract: Within the regulation of net purchasing, investment incentives for residential PV depend on the remuneration for grid feed-in and the consumption costs that households can save by self-consumption. Network tariffs constitute a substantial part of these consumption costs. We use postcode-level data for Germany between 2009 and 2017 and exploit the regional heterogeneity of network tariffs to investigate whether they encourage to invest in PV installations and evaluate how the nonlinear tariff structure impacts residential PV adoption. Our results show that network tariffs do impact PV adoption. The effect has increased in recent years when self-consumption has become financially more attractive, and the results confirm the expectation that PV investments are driven by the volumetric tariff. Policy reforms that alter the share between the price components are, thus, likely to affect residential PV adoption. Further, with self-consumption becoming a key incentive, price signals can effectively support the coordination of electricity demand and supply in Germany.

Keywords: Network tariffs; PV investments; self-consumption; price perception; panel data; prosumer; non-linear prices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 D12 L51 Q42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2021-09-20
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene, nep-eur, nep-isf and nep-reg
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.ewi.uni-koeln.de/en/publications/how-p ... s-on-residential-pv/ Full text (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 403 Forbidden

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ris:ewikln:2021_007

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in EWI Working Papers from Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universitaet zu Koeln (EWI) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sabine Williams ().