Mitigation analysis of MV distribution network constraints thanks to a self-consumption policy for photovoltaic distributed units

International audienceSelf-consumption of homemade electricity from renewable energy in encouraged by the European commission to enforce their penetration in state energy portfolios. By using electrical energy storage systems and demand response, this technique can lower the overall cost of the renewable energy transfer in the electrical system and so increase it. To develop selfconsumption efficiently, various energy policies can be imagined to create economic support schemes for motivating consumers to make active decisions in this way and mobilizing financial resources for an energy transition toward more RES in the future. Germany has experimented earlier this policy orientation while France is only beginning to consider self-consumption. The goal of this paper is to compare German and French policies in order to evaluate the benefits of PV production self-consumption. So economic national frameworks are recalled and then a 100kW PV producer is considered. With one-year time data series and an energy model, different operation conditions are simulated and times of return on investment are compared. Then, benefits for the electrical network operation are studied. The benchmark distribution network model from CIGRÉ is used to quantify and compare technical constraint occurrences