Network transmission

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The term grid transmission suggests the delivery of an electricity customer by an electricity supplier of his choice via an external electricity network . This gives the wrong impression that electrical current is physically "passed through" from A to B. In reality, it is a virtual billing model for supplied energy, which also deals with the distribution of network costs. Rather, there is a settlement between the providers and network operators.

In fact, regardless of the supply contract, the electrical energy purchased is always supplied by the nearest power plants. Example: If someone lives near a nuclear power plant , it will supply them with energy. But he can conclude a contract with a provider in Sweden who sells him electricity from wind power plants that are operated on the edge of the North Sea. He pays the energy costs to them . As a result, electricity customers in the vicinity of the wind farm transfer part of the fee to the remote nuclear power plant.

The electricity price for the customer is differentiated into the actual energy share and the costs of network transmission. The network usage fees for network transmission or network use are subject to price regulation or price supervision by a body appointed for this purpose (e.g. authority, regulator, cartel court).

The possibility of network transmission was created by the enactment of Directive 96/92 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on common regulations for the internal electricity market of December 19, 1996 and its implementation in German law . The legal and organizational measures for the implementation of this legal situation at the energy suppliers are also referred to as unbundling .