DEVELOPMENT OF MICROGENERATION: THE PROBLEM OF CONSUMER FLIGHT

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the study of the impact of the transition of household consumers to an autonomous energy supply based on renewable energy sources on the costs of maintaining the power grid. The situation with the development of autonomous energy supply based on solar panels and the change in the cost of transmission and distribution of electricity through the network in Austria, Spain and Portugal is analyzed in detail. To build an econometric model, we used a sample of data for Austria as a country with the most stable developing energy system. An econometric model has been constructed that allows estimating the expected increase in the cost of transmission and distribution of energy in the price of electricity for households in the event that some consumers switch to autonomous energy supply and refuse to use the services of the electric grid complex. The obtained quantitative estimates can later be used to build a model of "consumer flight".