It is a measured fact: companies and individuals continue to invest in solar. “”There is a very important of the installed photovoltaic production capacities. Over the past year, we have gone from 10 gigawatts of installed capacity to 11.4 gigawatts“Explains Elia’s spokesperson.
Almost double the nuclear fleet when it was running at full capacity. “”But it’s difficult to compare the types of production, simply because it works completely differently“, relativizes Jean Fassiaux who recalls that solar electricity produced especially in spring and summer.
The danger is therefore to produce too much compared to consumption during these periods of strong sunshine. The problem arises especially when the consumption is not very high, “For example on weekends or public holidays when we have no industry“.
This spring has thus undergone an overproduction of electricity with negative electricity prices and suppliers called to take measures to reduce their production, concentrate consumption during sunshine peaks or store electricity via batteries.
“In spring when there was an abundance of solar but that consumption was low, we have implemented these flexibility means to be able to absorb this surplus“Confirms Stéphane Cornet, head of communication at Luminus.
