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Abbreviated form of legal source(s)
DL 162/2019
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Description of support scheme
In 2019, with the issuing of DL 162/2019, Portugal adopted a new net billing scheme specific to self-consumption units (Unidade de Produção para utoconsumo, UPAC,) prosumers, where they should receive a remuneration for the surplus energy supplied to the grid that reflects the market value of that electricity and which can be commercialized by an independent aggregator or utility company.
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Amount
The new self-consumption regulation states that surplus excess injection of electricity into the grid will be settled at 90% of the Iberian Electricity Market (MIBEL) price. In the past couple of years, market prices varied between 4 – 6 € cents/kWh. Therefore, remuneration for the energy surplus injected into the grid would vary between 3.6 – 5.4 € cents/kWh (DL 162/2019, ERSE and DGEG).
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Addressees
Acting individual self-consumers and energy communities
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Procedure
The energy surplus can be commercialized:
1. within an organized or bilateral market, including via a contract of acquisition of renewable energy;
2. via the market participant itself, upon agreement of a price between the parties;
3. via a market facilitator.
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Competent authority
- Energy Services Regulatory Authority (ERSE).
- Directorate General of Energy and Geology (DGEG)
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Technologies
