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The German association of energy intensive businesses (VIK)聽has聽pushed聽back against聽plans to adjust聽industrial grid fees聽to incentivise聽flexible power consumption, saying it risks 鈥渙verburdening a large part of industry.鈥� In聽, the VIK stressed聽that the flexibility potential in industry is limited and not available in every sector and company. At the same time, Germany聽should聽maintain the international competitiveness of its industry,聽the association聽added,聽echoing other critics of the plan. 鈥淔lexible production processes often lead to deviations from the optimal operating point, which results in higher operating costs and technical inefficiencies,鈥澛燰IK wrote.

Germany's Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) proposed new regulation to prompt industries with high demand to react dynamically to the current supply of electricity.聽This means that industrial consumers pay reduced grid fees if they increase demand when electricity supply is plentiful, as well as if they drive down consumption at times of low supply.聽This is聽deemed necessary聽for a power grid increasingly characterised by a high proportion of renewable electricity generation.

Solely focusing on the advantages of a more flexible manufacturing industry for the grid is 鈥渢oo short-sighted and neglects the far-reaching economic effects,鈥澛燰IK said.聽The聽association聽nevertheless saw an opportunity to increase the existing industrial flexibility potential of energy-intensive companies on a voluntary basis and based on incentives. VIK called聽for 鈥渞etaining the existing grid fee regulations and selectively supplementing the existing optional provision of existing and future industrial flexibility potential, thereby creating greater predictability for companies.鈥�

Currently, large industrial consumers receive discounts for maintaining a constant demand for electricity to keep flows in the grid stable and predictable. However, this has been criticised for making it virtually impossible for companies to respond to electricity price signals.