The Government Cabinet approved the National Strategy for Self-Consumption on 21 December 2021. This document set out guidelines for the promotion of renewable self-consumption, putting the consumer at the centre of developments in the energy sector, and enabling that sector to be used as a major tool in the fight against energy poverty.
This strategy includes mechanisms to increase the sharing of energy resources, such as energy communities, and will help to implement applications in areas such as industry and the services sector. In this sense, self-consumption not only constitutes a direct source of employment and activity generation - linked to its installation - but also has a triggering effect on the whole Spanish value-chain, which can benefit from the energy cost savings and modernisation drive linked to the growth of self-consumption
