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Entgelte für dezentrale Erzeugung — §18 StromNEV, under Abschmelzung.
§18 StromNEV pays the operator of a decentral generating plant for the upstream network costs its feed-in avoids. The payment is being phased out by Festlegung GBK-25-02-1#1 (Große Beschlusskammer Energie, 17.02.2026): the underlying vermiedene Kosten are cut in three steps and the payments end entirely with 2028.
§The schedule, from the Tenor
Tenorziffer 2 Satz 2 cuts the costs “in drei Stufen um a) 50 vom Hundert beginnend am 01. Juli 2026, b) 50 von Hundert beginnend am 01. Januar 2027 c) und 75 vom Hundert beginnend am 01. Januar 2028”; Satz 3 states the effect: “Die Kürzungen entsprechen einer jährlichen Abschmelzung von 25 %.”
| Period | Remaining factor | Annual average |
|---|---|---|
| to 30.06.2026 | 1.00 | 2026: 0.75 |
| 01.07.2026 – 31.12.2026 | 0.50 | |
| 2027 | 0.50 | 0.50 |
| 2028 | 0.25 | 0.25 |
| from 2029 | 0.00 | — |
The two 50 % steps are not cumulative: the 2027 cut restates the same level the July 2026 cut reached, which is what makes the annual averages fall by 25 percentage points a year.
§EEG plants are excluded
§18 Abs. 1 Satz 4 Nr. 1 StromNEV: a plant funded under the EEG receives no Entgelt für dezentrale Erzeugung. Settling one is refused as an error, not warned — the payment would be unlawful, and unlike a ceiling breach there is no legitimate reading under which it goes out anyway.
Structs§
- Dezentrale
Einspeisung Input - Input for a §18 settlement — the DSO’s payment to a decentral generator.
Functions§
- abschmelzfaktor
- The fraction of the vermiedene Kosten still payable on a given day.
- period_
crosses_ a_ step truewhen the factor changes inside the period.- settle_
dezentrale_ einspeisung - Settle the §18 payment for one plant and period.