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The performance price is based on the annual maximum load and is a key factor in grid charges — which can be optimized through storage and load management.
The performance price is a fixed component of electricity costs that is based on the highest electrical power demand (in kW) drawn at the same time within a billing year — regardless of the actual energy consumption in kWh. It is charged particularly to RLM customers (registered load measurement).
The basis is the so-called annual maximum load — i.e. the highest measured 15-minute average within a year. The higher this peak value, the higher the grid load — and therefore the higher the price.
For the grid operator, the performance price covers the costs of maintaining and expanding the grid so that such peak loads can be supplied at any time. Even if these peaks occur only for a few minutes per year, they cause high costs.
• Industrial companies with machine starts, furnace systems, or cooling processes
• Commercial companies with highly fluctuating electricity consumption (e.g. printing houses, bakeries)
• Use of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) for peak shaving
• Load management systems that flexibly control processes
• Analysis and optimization of grid charges, e.g. for high-voltage or medium-voltage connections
• Performance price (€/kW/year): grid- or supplier-specific, e.g. €150–300/kW/year
• Annual maximum load (kW): highest 15-minute power demand within a calendar year
• Load profile: regular or occasional peaks — decisive for optimization potential
• Cost share: can account for more than 30% of electricity costs when full-load utilization is low
• Savings potential: €10,000 to more than €100,000 per year possible by reducing typical load peaks
For many companies, the performance price is a key lever for reducing electricity costs — especially when very high power demand occurs only occasionally. Measures such as Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), process shifting, or self-consumption optimization help reduce the annual maximum load and thereby lower grid charges on a permanent basis.
We specifically analyze our customers’ annual load profiles in order to identify potential for reducing the performance price. Our storage solutions are designed precisely for this purpose:
• automatic smoothing of peak loads
• suitability for atypical grid usage
• transparent business case calculations in our potential analyses
This is how we reduce grid charges for our customers — without interfering with production processes.
