Electricity customers in Germany are to be relieved from next year. This should happen via a federal grant of 6.5 billion euros to finance the transfer network costs. In this way, the cost loading of power customers should be steamed from the network charges, it was said from circles of the Federal Ministry of Economics. It brought a corresponding draft law into the government -internal vote. The structurally high electricity prices are still a major challenge for the economy and burdened consumers. The federal subsidy is to be financed from the climate and transformation fund (KTF), a special pot of the federal government. The grant to the transmission network costs is now being implemented for 2026. In the following years, too, there should be relief with a volume of 6.5 billion euros in the KTF for power customers, the ministry said. This should be done via the network fees and possibly also proportionately through other levies that would also reduce electricity prices. However, the federal government still wanted to decide on the distribution. The CDU, CSU and SPD coalition agreement states that the aim is to permanently cover the network fees. Part of the reduction in the network charges is part of a package of measures by the Federal Government. The cabinet had already launched plans for relief for gas customers. Specifically, companies and consumers should be exempt from costs of the gas storage levy. It is also planned to steer the reduction in electricity tax for the manufacturing trade from 2026. At first, however, a reduction in electricity tax announced in the CDU CSU and SPD’s coalition agreement should not come for everyone – this had triggered broad criticism. The government had referred to household constraints. The network charges as part of the electricity price, which among other things the expensive expansion of the power grids is financed, have increased significantly. The fees are incurred for the use of the electricity transmission network. They are then transferred to consumers by the energy suppliers. The federal grant should be dampened by the federal grant to the transfer network costs, according to the draft law. This should alleviate the associated cost loads of the power customers connected to the transfer network and to downstream distribution networks. Equipment from Reich Federal Minister of Economics Katherina Reiche (CDU) had said a month ago by the German press agency with a view to the federal grant on the transfer network costs: “The relief must be passed on to the customers through the network operators: The relief must arrive at the customer. ”More on the subject cannot be said more about how high the discharge of each customer will be in the end result, said Kerstin Andreae, chair of the main management of the Federal Association of Energy and Water Management. That is very different regionally. “On the one hand, it depends on how much electricity is taken from the transmission network in the respective distribution network, and on the other hand on the customer structure in this region.”
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