The Netherlands has removed a distribution fee for solar owners looking to put excess power back onto the grid.
The national transmission operator, Netbeheer Nederland, said a connection fee for grid access would remain in place but from 1 January 2014, the distribution fee would not apply to solar installations.
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Netbeheer Nederland stressed that solar installations must have their own distinct connection and be registered separately.
In September the country revised its renewable energy goals with a 14% target for 2020 and the objective of up to 2 million residential PV installs.
The country’s feed-in tariff scheme reached capacity in August with the full €50.8 million (US$67.5 million) budget allocated.
Additional grid fees and self-consumption levies are courting controversy in the US and Australia as well as in Europe with Spain’s government accused of trying t “tax the sun”.
