German Energy Policy: Reconciling Energy Storage and Feed-in Tariffs with Self-consumption Tariffs

Feed-in tariffs for generated energy are often seen as dis-incentivizing for storage. Indeed, if one gets an advantageous payment for energy delivered to the grid, why should the energy be stored and later self-consumed? With the introduction of "self-consumption" tariffs, German policy-makers tried to solve this problem for PV.

Source: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/04/german-energy-policy-reconciling-energy-storage-and-feed-in-tariffs-with-self-consumption-tariffs?cmpid=rss

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