Fees

From the incremental capacity cycle 2023 - 2025 onwards, the German transmission system operators will charge a fee for the activities resulting from the transmission of the non-binding demand indication.

The fee amounts to € 30,000 per market area border, request type (incremental capacity or capacity to be upgraded) and flow direction for non-binding market requests received in accordance with Art. 26 (6) NC CAM. This will be invoiced to the requestor by the responsible TSO (see Table 1 ). If the invoiced fee is not paid on time, the respective non-binding market demand of the enquirer will not be considered further. The fee is also charged if the original request for incremental capacity to be created was made abroad and as a result the German TSOs have to carry out a procedure for incremental capacity. If several companies request incremental capacity at the same market area border, for the same request type and the same transport direction, the fee is divided among these requestors. In this respect, all enquirers for the market area border receive their own invoice for the full fee of € 30,000 with a payment term of 14 calendar days from the responsible TSO. The amount is then divided by the number of payments received on time, the resulting individual fee per company is determined and any overpaid fee is refunded. The fee charged shall also be refunded if the market demand analysis pursuant to Art. 26 NC CAM shows that the capacity can be made available without continuing the procedure for incremental capacity. Likewise, the fee is refunded if the economic viability test is positive for at least one offer level that includes new capacity to be created at the respective interconnection point.

The following TSOs charge the fee at the respective market area border:

Table 1: Market area border and respective TSOs

The fee was applied by the transmission system operators pursuant to Art. 26 (11) NC CAM and was approved in procedure no. BK9-022/042 of the Federal Network Agency.