As reported by the Nova agency, the economic and regulatory ecosystem for Japanese producers of "clean" energy from domestic systems will radically change next year.

In November 2019, the ten-year system that obliges the country's large utilities to purchase energy produced by households at fixed rates will expire. The filing of this regulatory scheme has already prompted various types of actors to take action to tap into a market that currently includes 350 Japanese families, whose domestic plants have a total capacity of 1,35 gigawatts, equal to that of a large reactor. nuclear.

The departure of large utilities promises to be beneficial for producers of domestic storage systems and other energy efficiency systems: in fact, families will mostly resolve to use self-produced energy, as they will no longer be able to sell it to utilities at discounted rates. Other companies, such as housing giant Sekisui House Ltd., aim to purchase excess household production to achieve their goal of canceling the environmental footprint of their energy consumption. Sekisui is also targeting the sector to promote its business: homes with domestic production plants sold by the company will be able to sell their excess energy to the company at a rate one or two yen higher than the market rate.

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