The State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine (SAEE) has reported that around 63 MW of rooftop PV systems were connected to the country’s grid as of the end of March 2018.
Overall, 3,553 rooftop PV arrays were installed under the scheme at the end of the latest quarter, in which new additions totaled 543. This compares to around just 200 new projects in the first quarter of 2017.
According to SAEE, the growing interest for solar net metering is due to the generous euro-linked tariff, which is being granted to the excess solar power in the grid. In 2017, this tariff was €0.18 per kWh.
As of the end of the first quarter of last year, approximately 1,300 solar power generators were installed under net metering. This means that the amount of installed capacity under net metering has more than doubled over the past 12 months.
The scheme, which is open to PV installations with a capacity of up to 30 kW, was introduced in Ukraine with the law №514-VIII, which was issued in April 2015.
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NEM or Feed-in tariff?
When you talk about “net metering”, don’t you mean “feed in tariff”?
net energy metering (NEM) means that excess solar energy is refunded with the retail price of electricity. But what is the retail price per kWh in Ukraine? Hard to imagine it is as much as 18 ct/kWh.
In Germany, excess solar energy fed to the grid is paid 12 ct/kWh (Eurocents) by the utilities. The retail price is about 24 ct/kWh plus VAT.
So I guess the 18 ct/kWh is a feed-in tariff, not net metering!