Eastern European prosumers acting in 'energy self-defense'

New research on the PV markets of the four countries forming the so-called Visegrad Group has confirmed that solar prosumers are driven primarily by economic interests rather than environmental concerns. The scientists coined the concept of "energy self-defense" to define all those behaviors that push homeowners to resort to PV in attempt to address price shocks. A European research team has investigated how residential prosumers acted in difficult regulatory environments in countries of the so-called Visegrad Group (V4) - the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary - and has found that one ...

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