Overview

• New Bundesnetzagentur data show network charges rose from €15.9 billion in 2015 to €33 billion in 2025, marking a more than 100 percent increase.
• Integrating a higher share of renewable energy has required extensive grid upgrades and complex control system overhauls, driving up infrastructure costs.
• Average household levies climbed from 6.59 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2015 to 11.62 cents last year, adding to consumer electricity bills.
• The reported figures cover large grid operators regulated by the Bundesnetzagentur, excluding smaller providers below its oversight threshold.
• BSW chair Sahra Wagenknecht denounced the surge as a policy failure and demanded the elimination of consumer levies and public takeover of the networks.