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POWER: German Solar Lobby Criticizes Bnetza For Battery Grid Connection Fees

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Germany’s solar lobby group BSW Solar is criticizing Bnetza that network operators charge fees for the connection of storage systems to the transmission network as it slows down the expansion of large-scale storage projects, it said. 

  • Germany’s Bnetza has said in a position paper the costs are appropriate.
  • The German Parliament has issued an exemption to those fees util 31 December 2028.
  • Bnetza is blocking to make these exemptions permanent, while also blocking the exemption from grid charges to also be applied to self-consumption storage systems. 
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Germany’s solar lobby group BSW Solar is criticizing Bnetza that network operators charge fees for the connection of storage systems to the transmission network as it slows down the expansion of large-scale storage projects, it said. 

  • Germany’s Bnetza has said in a position paper the costs are appropriate.
  • The German Parliament has issued an exemption to those fees util 31 December 2028.
  • Bnetza is blocking to make these exemptions permanent, while also blocking the exemption from grid charges to also be applied to self-consumption storage systems.