Abstract
In recent years, the use of photovoltaic-based distributed electricity generation has played a key role in achieving climate and energy policy goals. The energy market is changing rapidly from centralized generation towards unbundling generation, transmission, distribution, and supply activities. As energy consumers also become producers, a new energy market player—the prosumer—is emerging. The role of the prosumer as a market player can be analyzed in terms of implemented technological solutions, economic assessment, environmental impact, and legal regulation requirements. The aim of this article is to investigate the importance and compatibility of energy prosumers with energy justice theory in the context of European Union (EU) law. The authors concluded first that an energy prosumer will help to meet energy justice goals only if government ensures support for generation facilities for low-income consumers, as only then can intrageneration equity be achieved. Second, seeking to ensure equality among places with different energy sources, the government should promote the development of generation facilities using different renewable energy sources. Third, the short-term electricity market, which may allow energy prosumers to participate, should be developed.
Highlights
The energy sector is changing very rapidly
As in the first part, we identified the main aims of energy justice theory, and in the second part, we identified the role of renewable self-consumer in the energy market; in this part, we developed the discussion of whether the renewable self-consumer contributes to implementing energy justice theory
The compatibility of the energy prosumer with energy justice theory is analyzed in the following parts of the article
Summary
The energy sector is changing very rapidly. are the technologies, enterprises, and property rights changing, and fundamental changes are occurring in the paradigm of regulation of the energy sector. Fifty years ago, holding monopoly rights in energy production, transportation, and supply, state-owned energy companies were dominating. This structure of the energy sector was based on the doctrine that only companies with monopoly rights can be efficient, and that state ownership is the best possible way of governance of energy companies to avoid abuse of monopoly power and to ensure the proper supply of public services. It was later discovered that private actors and competition could ensure the most efficient way to operate in the energy sector and the market This paradigm shift was followed by the privatization of energy companies and the unbundling of generation, transmission, distribution, and supply activities
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