Panic buying expected: funding for balcony power plants about to end

BARGAIN

January 15, 2025 at 5:33 p.m

If you're thinking about buying a balcony power plant, you shouldn't wait too long. Funding opportunities for small solar power systems could soon disappear.

Anyone who owns a balcony power plant can feed excess electricity into the grid and receive compensation for this. The prerequisite for this is according to Vattenfall a separate meter for the electricity fed in or a bidirectional meter. If you plan to refinance the purchase of your balcony power plant using the feed-in tariff, you should hurry up.

From February onwards, the feed-in tariff for new systems will fall from 8.03 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) to 7.94 cents per kWh. After the federal election at the end of February it could disappear completely. According to media reports, the traffic light coalition had already planned to abolish the feed-in tariff completely if there was a negative electricity price on the market before it broke. So the supply is greater than the demand.

Feed-in tariff before the end

The law in which this measure was envisaged has not yet made it through the Bundestag. Nevertheless, the feed-in tariff in the industry is expected to end soon – probably as soon as the new federal government starts work after the election at the end of February. The reason: The feed-in tariff charged the Frankfurter Rundschau According to this, the federal budget is currently in the billions and Germany has to save money.

The foreseeable end of the funding is likely to lead to a run on balcony power plants and smaller solar systems, which could lead to delivery bottlenecks. So if you've been thinking about buying for a while, it's better not to put off your plans for too long.

Current offers for balcony power plants

We have summarized further funding options for balcony power plants apart from the feed-in tariff in the linked article.