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- Title
Citizen Participation to Finance PV Power Plants Focused on Self-Consumption on Company Roofs—Findings from an Austrian Case Study.
- Authors
Linhart, Matthias; Rodin, Valerie; Moser, Simon; Kollmann, Andrea; Massi Pavan, Alessandro
- Abstract
Despite large amounts of available roof space, long pay-back periods for investments in photovoltaic (PV) power plants often hinder PV installations in industrial parks. Photovoltaic citizen participation initiatives (PV-CPI) are an alternative way of financing PV power plants that add non-financial benefits to these investments. This paper analyzed the feasibility of the installation of PV power plants focused on high rates of self-consumption financed by citizen participation initiatives on the roofs of five companies located in the Austrian Ennshafen industrial business park based on the net present value and the discounted pay-back period and compared it to a standard financing scheme, assuming a predetermined interest rate for participants as well as economies of scale with respect to the specific installation costs due to a joint purchase of the PV power plants. To calculate the feasibility, site-specific data and literature input have been used. The results show that despite an interest rate above the current interest rates of conservative forms of investments provided to (small-scale) investors, a payback-period of 17–23 years can be reached while the joint purchase can lead to a competitive feasibility of the PV-CPI compared to an individual purchase of PV power plants.
- Subjects
POLITICAL participation; BUSINESS parks; POWER plants; NET present value; INTEREST rates; INDUSTRIAL districts
- Publication
Energies (19961073), 2021, Vol 14, Issue 3, p738
- ISSN
1996-1073
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/en14030738