Germany's regulator targets €1.5bn in grid cost reductions

Consumers will be relieved by the measure by EUR 1.5 billion over the next three years.

Germany's regulator targets €1.5bn in grid cost reductions

Germany's energy grid regulator, Bundesnetzagentur, has proposed a plan that could save power customers €1.5bn ($1.71bn) from 2026 to 2028 by eliminating payments to small conventional power generation units.

Consumers will be relieved by the measure by 1.5 billion euros over the next three years.In the next few years, the charges will initially be reduced by 25 percent and will no longer be paid from 2029 onwards, as a draft of the authority provides.The Federal Network Agency has submitted a draft to determine the current remuneration for decentralised feed-in, the so-called avoided network charges, and has put it for consultation.The authority wan…

The Bundesnetzagentur wants to abolish the avoided grid charges by 2029. This saves electricity customers 1 billion € annually in grid charges. The contribution Bundesnetzagentur: Avoid net charges away, which saves 1.5 billion € in three years first appeared on ingenieur.de - Jobbörse und Nachrichtenportal für Ingenieure.