Industrial grid tariff rebates
Client: TenneT
Neon team: Anselm Eicke
Published: 2024
Germany’s grid fee rebates for large consumers with steady offtake — worth around 1.5 billion euros in 2024 — have for decades made industrial demand response virtually impossible. With the Bundesnetzagentur announcing a reform, a policy window has opened. For transmission operator TenneT, we analyzed the problems and objectives of the current rebate scheme, laid out the trade-offs, and developed two reform directions: cost-reflective network charges in the long run and, in the short run, a purely volume-based, regionally differentiated rebate that abolishes the 7,000-hour requirement. This report was originally published in German.
Prof. Dr. Lion Hirth
hirth@neon.energy
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