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Stakeholder-Workshop "Households and PV systems in Austria"

On February 25th, 2025, a stakeholder workshop was held at WIFO in the context of the FutuRes-PV project. Survey results on the characteristics of Austrian prosumers and motives and barriers to investing in PV systems were discussed.

In the first part of the workshop, Tugba Atasoy presented first results from a household survey on the characteristics of Austrian prosumers and their motives and barriers to investing in PV systems. The survey results show that legal framework conditions (such as restrictions regarding the installation of PV systems in multi-family houses) and financial aspects are key determinants for the adoption of PV sys-tems by Austrian households. The results were evaluated and validated through discussions with the stakeholders. In the second part of the workshop, Kagan Yueüksel introduced the technology diffusion model, which simulates adoption pathways of PV systems in Austrian households, and presented pre-liminary results. Stakeholder feedback will be considered in the development of policy scenarios.

A rapid and comprehensive phase-out of fossil fuels is required to achieve the climate targets. Austria aims at covering 100% of its electricity demand from renewable energy sources by 2030 by increasing electricity generation from renewables by 27 TWh compared to 2020. Due to a continued electrifica-tion in all areas after 2030, a further expansion of renewable electricity will be required. The contribu-tion of households as prosumers will be of crucial importance in the energy transition and the purchase of a PV system is a long-term remedy against electricity price increases. However, due to economic or legal restrictions, not all households can benefit equally from this technology.