New electricity levy planned: What does that mean for your electricity bill?

New electricity levy planned: What does that mean for your electricity bill?

electricity price increase: What do the new levies mean for consumers?

When the monthly electricity bill flaps into the house, you often find that part of the money is not used directly for the energy itself, but for state taxes. The coalition is now planning an additional levy that is related to the conversion of the energy industry.

9. July 2024 at 5:14 p.m.

Berlin

A modern gas power plant in Gelsenkirchen-Scholven. A new electricity levy should be introduced for the financing of such systems.

Oliver Berg/dpa

What do the planned additional costs mean for consumers?

The federal government is planning a new electricity levy for financing new and modernization of existing gas power plants. These systems are crucial to stabilize the power supply with low renewable energy generation.

The amount of the levy could be comparatively low, according to the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". Verivox estimates that an average family has to expect additional costs between one and three euros per month.

Why is this levy necessary?

Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck defends the levy as a standard financing for securing European energy supply. He emphasizes that consumers are currently not being burdened and future costs will only occur in the 1930s.

According to Verivox, taxes, levies and levies already make up around 31 percent of the current electricity price. With the elimination of the EEG surcharge in July 2022, the state share of the electricity price was significantly reduced.

What does household cleaning say?

The new levy is part of a planned power plant security law that Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), Habeck and Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) agreed. A total of 12 gigawatt capacities and 500 megawatts are to be created.

The expansion of new gas power plants and the conversion of existing systems should enable up to 5 gigawatts from the federal government's climate and transformation funds and to finance another 5 gigawatts through the described levy.

- NAG