According to the four German power transmission network operators 50Hertz, Amprion, TenneT and TransnetBW, the power surcharge paid by end-consumers to support renewable energies under the Renewable Energies Act (EEG) will increase by 3% in 2016, from €6.17c/kWh in 2015 to €6.354c/kWh in 2016. Of this amount, about €2.6c/kWh will go for solar PV, about €1.7c/kWh to biomass and about €2c/kWh to wind.
The increase in the surcharge, which had dipped in 2015, is linked to higher onshore and offshore wind power capacity and higher wind and biomass-fired generation: renewable power generation should increase from about 161 TWh in 2015 to 176 TWh in 2016 (+9%).
Transmission network operators estimates that renewable capacity in Germany will reach 117 GW in 2020 (47 GW of solar and 60 GW of wind), with power generation of about 217 TWh corresponding to approximately €12.2bn of feed-in tariffs to be paid to plants' operators.
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