What is self-consumption?

Renewable Energy

It is the energy a user generates and consumes immediately, without it passing through the grid.

For the investor: self-consumption is worth more than surplus, because it avoids paying the full grid tariff. Two projects generating the same amount can return differently depending on how much energy is consumed on site.

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Solar surplus energy: how it is settled in Colombia

What happens to the solar energy you produce and don't use. CREG's three regimes, what the PDE and the AGPE limit are, and which one applies to you.

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