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Home/News/Full article: News of 50Hertz
01.10.2018 |
Press Release

Transmission grid fees in Hamburg, Berlin and eastern Germany lower in 2019

50Hertz also reduces the average grid fees for next year
Transmission grid fees in Hamburg, Berlin and eastern Germany lower in 2019
  • Average grid fees expected to drop by 23 per cent
  • Main reason for the fee reduction: due to new legislation, offshore costs are transferred from the grid fees to the offshore grid surcharge
  • Additional reason: lower costs for congestion management
  • 50Hertz CEO Schucht: “Good signal for energy-intensive industry!”
  • For the first time, part of the grid fees of the four German transmission system operators is standardised for next year

Berlin – Good news for electricity consumers in Hamburg, Berlin and the eastern German states: 50Hertz, the electricity transmission system operator responsible for the north and east of Germany, is expected to lower its grid fees for 2019 by 23 per cent compared to the current year. This drop is first and foremost due to the recalculation of the offshore costs, which in the future will be financed by the consumers via the so-called offshore grid surcharge (formerly the “offshore liability surcharge”) as a result of new legislation. Lower costs for the 50Hertz congestion management are also positively reflected. 50Hertz was already able to reduce the grid fees by eleven percent from 2017 to 2018. The tariffs for 2019 will be definitively established at the end of this year.

Most decisive for the change in grid fees at 50Hertz are the changes resulting from the German act modernising the grid fees (Network Charges Modernisation Act (NEMoG)), which entered into force in July 2017. As of next year, the offshore costs will be distributed evenly for all of Germany through the offshore grid charge instead of through the regionally different grid fees, as is the case now, and as such help lower these regional grid fees. In the scope of the NEMoG, the transmission grid fees will also be gradually adjusted from 2019 until 2023. For 2019, this means that a standard national grid fee slice of 20 per cent is applied to the grid fees of the four German transmission system operators for the first time. In addition, 50Hertz was able to reduce its congestion management costs (redispatch with conventional power plants and lower output of renewable generating units) compared to last year.

Most decisive for the change in grid fees at 50Hertz are the changes resulting from the German act modernising the grid fees (Network Charges Modernisation Act (NEMoG)), which entered into force in July 2017. As of next year, the offshore costs will be distributed evenly for all of Germany through the offshore grid charge instead of through the regionally different grid fees, as is the case now, and as such help lower these regional grid fees. In the scope of the NEMoG, the transmission grid fees will also be gradually adjusted from 2019 until 2023. For 2019, this means that a standard national grid fee slice of 20 per cent is applied to the grid fees of the four German transmission system operators for the first time. In addition, 50Hertz was able to reduce its congestion management costs (redispatch with conventional power plants and lower output of renewable generating units) compared to last year.

The 23 per cent drop in the 50Hertz grid fees means that a private four-person household with an annual consumption of about 4,000 kilowatt-hours will save about ten euros a year, as the share of the grid fees of the transmission system operator in the total electricity price of private households is only five per cent. This share is higher for companies, and especially for energy-intensive companies, that are directly connected to the transmission grid. For example, an industrial customer such as a steel mill with an annual usage of around 4,000 hours in 2019 will pay 16 million euros in grid fees instead of 20 million euros in 2018.

 

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