The renewable energy charge, collected from electricity end-users to finance renewable electricity support, will decrease in 2025 from 1.05 cents to 0.84 cents per kilowatt-hour, excluding VAT. Historically, the renewable energy charge has only been lower in 2014, when it was 0.77 cents per kilowatt-hour.
It is expected that a slight decrease in this charge can also be anticipated in the coming years, as the support periods for power plants under the old fixed-price support scheme are gradually coming to an end, which means less money will be needed for support in the near future.
Electricity produced from renewable sources already accounts for 63% of Estonia’s total electricity production this year. At the same time, supported renewable electricity accounts for 46% of all renewable electricity produced, meaning more than half of renewable electricity is generated without support.
Next year, an estimated 84 million euros will be spent on renewable energy and efficient cogeneration support. The volume of supported electricity production is expected to be approximately 1.6 terawatt-hours.
For both wind farms and solar parks, 28 million euros will be spent on support. According to the scheme, support for biomass power plants will amount to 23 million euros, support for power plants that participated in reverse auctions for electricity from renewable energy sources in recent years amounting to three million euros, and support for efficient cogeneration to less than two million euros.
The renewable energy charge is a statutory fee used to finance support for electricity produced from renewable energy sources or in an efficient cogeneration process and supplied to the network. According to the law, the renewable energy charge is calculated by Elering, which prepares and publishes an estimate on its website by 1 December based on production and consumption forecasts, with input from network operators, direct line possessors, producers of electricity from renewable energy sources and in an efficient cogeneration process, and consumers connected to Elering’s electricity network.
Renewable energy charge will decrease by 20 percent from the new year | Elering