The new Sustainable Mobility Act will be approved during this year 2024, in order to accomplish one of the objectives agreed with the European Commission in the Addendum to the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. It aims to support mobility as a social right, promote clean and healthy mobility, bet on digitalization and innovation and improve the quality of investment decisions and expenses in transport and mobility, as well as developing new tools to increase public participation.

During this conference organized by the Repsol Foundation and the School of Unidad Editorial, the keys to this new regulation will be approached from the different points of view by the agents involved, in the path towards a fair and inclusive energy transition.

What benefits does distributed generation offer consumers?

Distributed generation offers several advantages over centralised generation. From a technical point of view, distributed generation is directly connected to the distribution grid, avoiding having to pass through the transmission grid to bring electricity to the end consumer. In this way, power losses are reduced. 

From the system management point of view, electricity self-consumption allows the end consumer to make the most of the energy resource, thereby reducing difficulties between power supply and demand management. 

Advantages of distributed generation: 

• Less CO₂ emissions: Electricity generation comes mainly from renewable sources that generate low emissions.
• Reduces loss in the power grid: By being closer to the consumer, transmission grids are shorter, which implies lower energy losses in the transport of electricity and savings for the system.
• Increased reliability and quality of the electrical system: more generation points reduce dependence on large power plants.
• Access to renewable and local energy by the general public: Thanks to these models, consumers reduce their emissions by accessing the locally generated renewable energy.
• Cost savings: on the demand side, consumers can reduce electricity costs and, on the supply side, technical system management costs are reduced, since there are fewer electricity flows in transmission and distribution.