Jean-Christophe Poudou

Jean-Christophe POUDOU, Professeur, Université de Montpellier, Faculté d'Economie Espace Richter.

Titre de la présentation: "Prosumers and the grid"

Résumé: Prosumers are households that are both producers and consumers of electricity. A prosumer has a grid-connected decentralized production unit (DPU) and has two types of exchanges with the grid: energy imports when the local production is insufficient to match the local consumption and energy exports when local production exceeds local consumption. There are two systems to measure the exchanges with the grid: a net metering system that uses a single meter to measure the balance between exports and imports and a net purchasing system that uses two meters to measure both exports and imports. We build a model to compare the two systems in terms of deployment of DPU, redistribution, and incentives to synchronize production and consumption.