Securing a Renewable Energy Supply for a Single-Family House Using a Photovoltaic Micro-Installation and a Pellet Boiler

Jakub Stolarski, Ewelina Olba-Zięty, Michał Krzyżaniak and Mariusz Jerzy Stolarski ()
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Jakub Stolarski: Department of Genetics Plant Breeding and Bioresource Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-724 Olsztyn, Poland
Ewelina Olba-Zięty: Department of Genetics Plant Breeding and Bioresource Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-724 Olsztyn, Poland
Michał Krzyżaniak: Department of Genetics Plant Breeding and Bioresource Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-724 Olsztyn, Poland
Mariusz Jerzy Stolarski: Department of Genetics Plant Breeding and Bioresource Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-724 Olsztyn, Poland

Energies, 2025, vol. 18, issue 15, 1-29

Abstract: Photovoltaic (PV) micro-installations producing renewable electricity and automatic pellet boilers producing renewable heat energy are promising solutions for single-family houses. A single-family house equipped with a prosumer 7.56 kWp PV micro-installation and a 26 kW pellet boiler was analyzed. This study aimed to analyze the production and use of electricity and heat over three successive years (from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2023) and to identify opportunities for securing renewable energy supply for the house. Electricity production by the PV was, on average, 6481 kWh year −1 ; the amount of energy fed into the grid was 4907 kWh year −1 ; and the electricity consumption by the house was 4606 kWh year −1 . The electricity supply for the house was secured by drawing an average of 34.2% of energy directly from the PV and 85.2% from the grid. Based on mathematical modeling, it was determined that if the PV installation had been located to the south (azimuth 180°) in the analyzed period, the maximum average production would have been 6897 kWh. Total annual heat and electricity consumption by the house over three years amounted, on average, to 39,059 kWh year −1 . Heat energy accounted for a dominant proportion of 88.2%. From a year-round perspective, a properly selected small multi-energy installation can ensure energy self-sufficiency and provide renewable energy to a single-family house.

Keywords: photovoltaic installation; prosumer; electricity; pellet boiler; heat energy; single-family house (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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