Paradigm Shift in the Hungarian Electricity Production Sector and the Microgeneration Solar Photovoltaic Systems

Abstract

The European Union and Hungary are committed to increasing the share of green energy in the energy mix. There are two main challenges for the Hungarian energy sector today. The first is energy safety that is to provide enough energy to fulfil the industrial and residential electricity demands and meeting environmental requirements at the same time. The other is to prepare for potential shifts in industrial and residential consumer habits. We deal with the political and economic impacts on the energy balance, the booming of electricity consumption, the development of the Hungarian electrical grid and challenges induced by weather dependent energy sources. We present some best practices, in particular low or no cost examples that can contribute to the balance of electricity production and consumption. We examine the conditions of economical operation of microgeneration solar photo voltaic systems after the potential lapse of net metering.