Martínez-Calahorro, Antonio JavierJiménez-Castillo, GabinoRus-Casas, CatalinaGómez-Vidal, PedroMuñoz-Rodríguez, Francisco José2025-06-162025-06-162020-12-21Martínez-Calahorro, A. J., Jiménez-Castillo, G., Rus-Casas, C., Gómez-Vidal, P., & Muñoz-Rodríguez, F. J. (2020). Photovoltaic Self-Consumption in Industrial Cooling and Refrigeration. Electronics, 9(12), 2204. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics91222042079-9292https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9122204https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/9/12/2204https://hdl.handle.net/10953/5812The industrial sector has a great opportunity to reduce its energy costs through distributed generation. In this sense, the potential of photovoltaic self-consumption systems in the industrial cooling and refrigeration sector is shown. Two industries with photovoltaic self-consumption installations are shown and the electricity consumption profile of this type of industry which has a remarkable basal electricity consumption during daytime is analyzed. The matching between consumption and photovoltaic generation profiles is provided through the self-consumption and self-sufficiency curves considering different reporting periods (monthly and annual). Moreover, a new index is presented: self-sufficiency index for sunshine hours, φSS,SH. This index evaluates the performance of the photovoltaic self-consumption system when facing the consumption only during sunshine hours. This index may complement the self-sufficiency index and may improve the analysis of this type of systems in the industrial sector. Self-consumption indices of 90% may be provided. Moreover, self-sufficiency indices for total (24 h) and for sunshine hours of 25% and 50%, respectively, for industry A, and 26% and 45% for industry B have been obtained. During daytime, half the load consumption in this type of industry may be covered by photovoltaics while achieving high levels of use of the photovoltaic energy generated.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spainhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/Photovoltaic self-consumptionDistributed generationIndustrial coldEnergy efficiencyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article621.3info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess