The law introducing an electricity price brake, passed in December 2022, stipulates, among other things, that operators of commercial photovoltaic systems over 1,000 kWh and decommissioned EEG systems over 100 kWh must remit their surplus revenues since December 1, 2022. These are calculated quarterly using various quotients, such as monthly market value or system size. The revenue surcharges from the so-called windfall profits are intended to benefit end consumers and are initially limited until June 30, 2023, and can be extended until April 30, 2024, at the latest.
Federal Network Agency increases PV values in tenders by almost 25%
At the same time as the StromPBG, the Federal Government also decided to increase the maximum values in photovoltaic tenders by 25% by the Federal Network Agency, which was also directly fixed by the authority in December 2022 for photovoltaics on roof surfaces and in January 2023 for solar parks for the next round of tenders in March 2023. The maximum values for the tenders thus rose from 8.91 to 11.25 cents per kilowatt hour for photovoltaic systems on roof surfaces and from 5.90 to 7.37 cents per kilowatt hour for solar parks.
Expansion targets to be achieved despite electricity price brake
The German government and the Federal Network Agency hope that raising the maximum values will give a further boost to investments in renewable energies. Precisely because component prices and financing costs rose in 2022 due to inflation and material shortages, there were more signatures in various tendering rounds in the same year. The market demanded a clear signal for the solar and renewable energy sectors.
High volume of tenders expected in 2023
The increase in PV values comes at just the right time, as the agency has already recorded very high volumes for the first tenders in 2023 and the measure is a clear incentive to invest in photovoltaic systems. It remains to be seen to what extent this step by the Federal Network Agency will stimulate investment by companies. With the CUBE Contracting model, CUBE CONCEPTS also enables commercial photovoltaic systems completely without any investment or economic risk and transparently passes on the higher values to the companies.