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According to a change in the law, charging stations for electric cars can be forcibly regulated in the event of power shortages.
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In the event of power shortages, heat pumps or charging stations for electric cars should be forcibly regulated - this is what a new regulation provides for.
But there are legal doubts: lawyers fear a violation of the fundamental rights of consumers.
Munich - From heat to mobility: In the future, fossil fuels should no longer play a role in almost all daily areas - instead everything should run on electricity, ideally clean electricity.
The relevant laws have already been passed.
On the one hand, the Federal Government's Building Energy Act, which prohibits the installation of new gas and oil heating systems - and on the other hand, the ban on the sale of new cars with diesel or gasoline engines throughout the EU from 2035.
According to the law, electricity consumption may be temporarily dimmed
Since January 1st of this year, there has been another legal regulation that is making people sit up and take notice: According to Section 14a of the Energy Industry Act, distribution network operators in Germany are allowed to regulate “controllable consumption devices” in the event of an electricity shortage.
“Controllable consumption devices” – what exactly is that?
According to the Federal Network Agency, these include heat pumps, charging systems for electric vehicles, air conditioning units and electricity storage devices.
However, the regulation should not mean a complete shutdown of the devices, as some initially feared.
This means that the electricity supply may only be dimmed temporarily - to 4.2 kilowatts of power.
If necessary, an electricity customer would have to limit themselves to 4.2 kilowatts, but this is certainly reasonable, explained Andreas Weiß from the Munich Research Center for Energy Economics to
Wirtschaftswoche
.
Charging electric cars for 100 kilometers no longer takes just under two hours, but around five hours.
Does the regulation violate applicable law?
The current dosage should be implemented using a so-called smart meter.
This device consists of a digital electricity meter and a communication module that enables data transmission to electricity suppliers and network operators.
The goal is for such a smart meter to be installed in every German household by 2032.
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As Die
Welt
recently reported, however, there are legal doubts about the new paragraph in the Energy Industry Act - the regulation "violates applicable law," the paper quotes lawyers who were commissioned by a company in the automotive industry.
In their statement, the lawyers came to the conclusion that simply forcing people to participate in throttling could be disproportionate and therefore a violation of the fundamental rights of the consumers concerned.