The costs of Germany’s power grids have more than doubled within ten years.
According to figures from the Federal Network Agency (FNA), the network fees to be paid by consumers and companies this year amount to 33 billion euros. In 2015, it was only 15.9 billion euros. [emphasis, links added]
This concerns the majority of power grid operators. Smaller operators, which the network agency is not responsible for and only play a minor role, are not included in the numbers.
The reason for the increase is the energy transition – the share of renewables in electricity generation is increasing, which is why the power grid and its controllers have to be rebuilt completely.
These costs are borne by electricity customers, i.e., consumers and companies.
An average household customer still paid a network fee of 6.59 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity in 2015, compared to 11.62 cents last year.
The BSW had requested the figures from the FNA. The party leader, Sahra Wagenknecht, called the sharp increase in grid costs “unacceptable”; she assessed this as a “failure of energy policy“.
It is a fact that Germany has one of the highest electricity rates worldwide.
The federal government must not only provide the promised relief for the electricity tax, but also end the rip-off of network fees; otherwise, the electricity prices will not fall significantly, according to Wagenknecht.
“Network charges should be abolished as much as possible for consumers, and the public sector should take over the networks.”
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