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European Small Solar Projects Retain Priority for Dispatch
European Union member states voted through the Committee of Permanent Representatives to maintain priority dispatch rights for small solar photovoltaic projects of 400kW and below.The vote favored maintaining the agreement in the Electricity Market Design Directive.
Last week, Aurélie Beauvais, policy director at Solar Power Europe, said: “Today’s vote is a huge win for small solar and renewable energy consumers. Solar Power Europe and 17 key stakeholders active in the ‘Small is Beautiful’ campaign The reward for all their hard work will pave the way for significant growth in the European small solar market, opening up new business opportunities for our members and reinforcing Europe’s industry leadership in highly innovative, highly decentralized energy systems. . It is now crucial that member states seize this opportunity and develop appropriate measures for small-scale solar projects in their national energy and climate plans.”
Naomi Chevillard, policy advisor at SolarPowerEurope, said: "The original plan was to remove priority dispatch, which would have exposed households, schools, hospitals and small businesses investing in solar to disproportionate market demands and administrative requirements. We have avoided this situation and distributed There is a bright future ahead for solar power generation and consumer empowerment, which is good news for the clean energy transition.”
In 2017, the former head of European association SolarPowerEurope called proposals to scrap priority dispatch for renewables "retroactive" and "irresponsible." In 2016, the continent's renewable energy project installed capacity reached the 100GW milestone, and PVTech paid close attention to the possibility of European renewable energy projects without priority dispatch rights.
