Technology bonus
A technology bonus is an additional payment that the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) provided for up to the version of 2009 for electricity that was fed into the grid and generated using certain innovative technologies. In addition, a bonus was paid for converting gas into electricity that had been upgraded to natural gas level. The provisions regarding the innovative technologies were described in Appendix 1 of the EEG and were deleted with the amendment to the EEG 2012. Regulations on the bonus for gas processing have been retained, with changed bonus rates. That is why the designation for the technology bonus in Appendix 1 from the EEG 2012 is simply "gas processing bonus".
The gas processing bonus is, if the eligibility requirements in the sense of Annex 1 (EEG 2012) are met, depending on the maximum capacity of the gas processing system:
- 3.0 ct / kWh electricity up to a maximum capacity of 700 standard cubic meters of processed raw gas per hour [Nm³ / h]
- 2.0 ct / kWh electricity up to a maximum capacity of 1000 Nm³ / h and
- 1.0 ct / kWh electricity up to a maximum capacity of 1400 Nm³ / h.
It supports electricity from landfill gas ( Section 24 EEG), sewage gas ( Section 25 EEG), mine gas ( Section 26 ) and biomass ( Section 27 EEG).