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Yeah it's crazy. It's gradually going down over the next few years. The most perverse part of this tax is that it's regressive: industrial users pay almost nothing.

A number of energy companies offer "dynamic" contracts. They announce the price for each hour the day before, which is based on some European auction system. Most people however still prefer a fixed price contract. Right now those go for €0.23 - €0.34 per kWh including tax, depending on how long you want the price fixed (e.g. one month, one year, three years).

Those contracts used to be the norm so the government tax wasn't as obviously weird. Now suddenly you have to PAY taxes to consume negatively priced electricity.
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Bert 1y ago

With ACM I would pull this overview every year and shout about it on Twitter. But I can’t find it at ACM anymore, they split all the costs in individual webpages so nobody sees the overview directly.

This is an old one, you’ll get the idea…

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Sjors Provoost 1y ago

That looks wrong. It was around €0.15 / kWh last year. But there's also a fixed deduction independent of use, so perhaps this is the net tax?