Information about the capacity fees with effect from 01.01.2025

Pursuant to the ruling BK9-19/610 (REGENT 2021) of the Bundesnetzagentur the capacity fees for a firm freely allocable capacity with a term of one year for interconnection and storage-network points to be applied as of January 1st, 2025, amounts to 6,71 €/(kWh/h)/a.

Pursuant to the ruling BK9-19/610 (REGENT 2021) of the Bundesnetzagentur the preliminary capacity fees for a firm freely allocable capacity with a term of one year for internal order points and ultimate consumer points to be applied as of January 1st, 2025, amounts as well to 6,71 €/(kWh/h)/a.

Compared to 2024, there is a significantly higher tariff for firm freely allocable entry and exit capacities in the THE market area.
The war in Ukraine has led to significant distortions on the European natural gas market from 2022. The current increase in tariffs can be attributed to various causes, some of which are only now emerging with a time lag and reflect the consequences of this crisis:

• High storage levels and a significant decline in end consumption and transit volumes lead to a reduced booking forecast.
• Due to the regulatory account system, the extraordinary effects from the crisis year 2022 (e.g. declines in bookings and high fuel costs) are now increasing costs with a time lag for the first time in 2025.
• The diversification of supply sources by means of new LNG plants has supported security of supply and helped to dampen the commodity price. The associated investments by individual transmission system operators in new entry points and connecting pipelines for the LNG facilities are also included in the 2025 tariff calculation.

Pursuant to § 6 (5) of the Cooperation Agreement between the operators of gas supply grids in Germany as amended on August 12th, 2022, effective from October 1st, 2022 (Cooperation Agreement XIII – German KoV XIII) the final capacity fees for these points will be published until December 2nd 2024 at the latest.