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If your own photovoltaic system is not properly registered, it will be very expensive since 2023.
Customers of Osthessen Netz in Fulda now received penalty notices (symbolic photo).
© Patrick Pleul/dpa
This letter is causing a lot of dissatisfaction: At the end of last week, Osthessen Netz began sending notices about the feed-in tariff to owners of photovoltaic systems.
Reason for the trouble: Around 1,800 customers of the electricity supply company from Fulda are being hit with a hefty fine.
Fulda - Anyone who invests in a photovoltaic system (PV system) must enter it in the Federal Network Agency's market master data register.
If he does not do this, 20 percent of the feed-in tariff was withheld from him.
Annoying.
But it is manageable, as an everyday example from Osthessen Netz in Fulda shows:
Accordingly, the owner of a typical PV system with ten kilowatt peak (kWp) receives around 370 euros per year.
If the photovoltaic system was not properly registered, 20 percent - in this case 74 euros - would be deducted until the end of 2022.
Fulda: Penalties have exploded since 2023 - photovoltaic owners are furious
However, since 2023 - and the notices that have now been sent apply to this year - the legislature has massively increased the penalties.
Anyone who has not complied with the obligation to register in 2023 will now be hit hard: a fine of ten euros per month per kilowatt peak will be due.
The PV system on the roof and the electricity storage system in the basement are considered two separate systems.
Specifically, this means that the person who previously had to pay a fine of 74 euros will now be asked to pay 2,400 euros.
Ten euros for each ten kilowatt peak of the PV system and ten kilowatts of the storage system - and the whole thing for twelve individual months.
In this case the penalty was correspondingly increased more than thirty-three times.
The only consolation: Anyone who registers later will receive 80 percent of the fine refunded.
However, this will only happen at the beginning of 2025 with the annual billing for the current calendar year.
We can only ask for your understanding.
We have no discretion whatsoever.
The laws are ours to carry out.
Dr.
Volker Nies, RhönEnergie spokesman
As a power grid operator, the company Osthessen Netz, which is part of the RhönEnergie Group, has now been obliged to collect the fines in the supply area.
And that's why it attracted the displeasure of 1,800 customers.
And it is not the case that the energy supplier benefits financially from the payments.
Because according to RhönEnergie spokesman Dr.
Volker Nies, the penalties will flow into the federal EEG funding pot.
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The regional energy supplier understands the displeasure of its many customers, but sees no room for maneuver.
“We tried to find a temporary solution in the interests of the PV system owners.
“But the responsible transmission system operators only recently explained to us unequivocally that Osthessen Netz must implement the sanctions without any restrictions in the same way as the legislature decided,” reports Nies.
However, he also points out that the company has informed every PV system owner in writing at least twice - although, according to the feedback from some customers to our newspaper, not clearly enough between several documents - of the registration requirement: before commissioning and upon inclusion in the network company's billing system.
And since the energy supplier sent out its bills, some angry customers have already reported in, reports Volker Nies.
Even if the network operator is the wrong contact person.
“We can only ask for your understanding.
We have no discretion whatsoever.
We have to carry out the laws,” said Nies.
Video: Energy consultant gives tips on self-consumption of photovoltaic systems
The RhönEnergie Group sees the new sanctions for PV system operators as another example of laws in the field of renewable energies in which the state obliges energy suppliers and network operators to carry out tasks whose fulfillment involves a lot of effort and also a lot of hassle , says the company spokesman.
Incidentally, around 19,000 PV systems currently feed in electricity in the Osthessen Netz supply area.
With 2,600 systems operated by 1,800 customers, almost 14 percent of all systems are affected by the new penalty.
Yesterday, the responsible Federal Network Agency was unable to quantify how many systems nationwide are affected by a fine.
Meanwhile, highways and railway lines will probably wind through solar areas in the future.
At least that is the vision of the Bundestag.
Photovoltaic systems can now be built 200 meters next to motorways and major railway lines - without building permits.
Mayors see this critically.