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Results – No Resizing
Assuming a community installs a renewable system at present, sized to their current demands, these results show a loss in match as improvements are made to the fabric of the buildings and demand is driven down.
As we can see our averaged match rate over summer and winter shows a reduction in the match rate from 65.28% to 30.30%.
The table below shows the final results for each of these scenarios:
From this we can see that our match rate and grid interaction gradually worsen as demand drops, as would be expected. This would be no problem in the case of feed-in-tariffs providing money for any additional power the community produces, but in the case in the future where excess power is not also a financial gain, this energy production would be a waste.