What will change in 2024?

The quota year 2024 has completed its first quarter and yet there were two changes in particular: the falling level of the GHG premium and the new regulation for public charging stations that get their electricity from renewable energies. 

Amount of the GHG premium  

The negative trend from 2023 continued in the 2024 quota year and sometimes fell to as low as €100 per ton. Influenced by supply and demand, alternatives to GHG trading, incorrectly declared biofuels, shortened submission deadlines, the exclusion of two-wheelers from GHG trading and the dirtier electricity mix, it remains to be seen how the rest of the 2024 quota year will develop. We look to the future with great hope for a greener and more sustainable world in which environmentally conscious action will pay off. 

New charging station regulation 

The second ordinance amending the Ordinance on Further Provisions for the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Fuels, which came into force on 29.07.2023, has significantly improved the position of operators of public charging points with renewable energy. 

Since 01.01.2024, a credit factor of around 2.5 compared to normal grid electricity has been used to calculate the GHG premium for electricity from wind turbines or photovoltaic systems. 

The prerequisites for this are 

1. Public accessibility of the charging station: the charging station must not only be accessible to neighbors, friends and family, but must also be accessible to an "undefined group of people or a group of people that can only be determined by general characteristics” and must also be registered with the Federal Network agency. 

1. The electricity must come from photovoltaic systems or wind turbines and be fed directly into the charging station. 

1. An RLM meter that measures consumption at 15-minute intervals so that actual consumption can be verified. This change is a sign that sustainable action is particularly worthwhile and is desired by the legislator. Anyone who meets the above requirements is not only doing something good but can also receive a comparatively high GHG bonus.