It is possible to share the electricity you produce with other consumers.
When sharing within the same building, you can create a sharing group as “renewable energy self-consumers operating collectively”. When sharing with consumers in other homes in your neighbourhood, you can create a renewable energy community. However, certain conditions must be met and you should make contact with the network operator to conclude a self-consumption agreement as soon as the project begins to take shape.
In both cases, the count values of the electricity-sharing group members will be recalculated for each quarter hour to reflect the share mechanism you have defined.
Example: during a given quarter of an hour, your power plant produces 500 Wh (Watt-hour) while you consume 200 Wh yourself, the excess 300 Wh can be allocated to one or more members of your electricity-sharing group. Their network withdrawal, which is the basis for billing the energy supplied by the supplier, will therefore be reduced by these 300 Wh.
There are several criteria (priority, percentage, pro-rata) to determine how your surplus can be distributed. The respective forms are available on your network operator’s website. In the context of renewable energy communities, more complex sharing criteria are possible.
ILR plans to introduce a simulation tool in the near future.