The new rates show that the financial benefit for thousands of households practically evaporates as soon as the government stops netting.
Calmering power stops as of 2027
From January 1, 2027, the government will stop netting. Until then, owners of solar panels may settle the generated electricity with their annual consumption. In March, Greenchoice was the first supplier to state that solar panels without netting yield virtually nothing anymore.
Almost half of solar panel owners would not purchase them now because of the end of the netting arrangement
Consumers will receive a return allowance per kilowatt hour (kWh), but it is around 10 cents. At the same time, suppliers charge return costs for keeping the electricity grid stable, which is increasingly experiencing peak loads due to the increase in solar energy.
Virtually nothing about it
With Innova Energie, those costs are almost the same as the revenues. As a result, net hardly anything is left. Where owners assumed a payback period of six years when purchasing, it now rises to twenty years or more. For many households, the financial benefit thus becomes negligible.
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Yet return is not decisive for everyone. Repeated research shows that some of the households mainly invest in solar panels because of their contribution to the energy transition and to lower gas consumption.
Comparison with Greenchoice
The decline at Innova Energie is comparable to that of Greenchoice, according to figures from Kaken.nl. From January 1, 2027, the supplier applies the following rates:
Return allowance: 11.8 cents per kWh
Return costs: 11.495 cents per kWh
Net reimbursement: 0.305 cents per kWh
For comparison: Greenchoice uses a net reimbursement of 0.25 cents per kWh.
For a household with ten solar panels and an annual generation of 2380 kWh, this means that they will only have € 7.25 per year at Innova, compared to around € 340 now.
This is calculated on the basis of 30% own consumption, a percentage that Knowledge Center Milieu Centraal persists as average.
Battery for storage own electricity
According to Milieu Centraal, households can partly limit the loss by using a larger part of their current themselves. This is possible, for example, by purchasing a home battery. This also makes less power to the overloaded electricity grid.