Basis for energy transition fails: solar panel owner now has to pay a hefty levy, up to 46 euros per month.
From one of our correspondents.
The Dutch energy supplier Vandebron will charge a monthly amount to customers with solar panels. It will be a variable rate that will be between 10 and 20 euros for most solar panel owners. Vandebron says that this is necessary to distribute the energy transition more fairly. De Volkskrant reports that other suppliers will follow.
The distribution of costs is starting to get skewed.
Vandebron states that it is a fixed cost item that is included in the energy bill per month. This is calculated on the basis of the annual consumption and specifically the number of kWh that customers feed back to the provider each year.
Vandebron:
'On sunny days, much more green electricity is generated than we need in the house at that time. The surplus solar energy is fed back into the grid so that others can use it. But feed-in costs energy suppliers money. They pay imbalance and profiling costs to the grid operator for the feed-in of energy. And now that more and more is being fed in, these costs are going up further and further.'
https://www.climategate.nl/2023/08/grondslag-energietransitie-faalt-zonnepaneel-eigenaar-moet-nu-forse-heffing-betalen-tot-46-euro-per-maand/
