Incremental Capacity process 2025-2027
According to Chapter 5 (EU) 2017/459 (NC CAM) the German Gas-TSOs shall carry out a process to identify the need for incremental capacity. The process starts in odd years after the annual auction and has a duration of two years.
General information
All information on past or current Incremental Capacity cycles are published here.
Fee acc. to Art. 26 (11) Regulation (EU) 2017/459 (NC CAM)
From the incremental capacity cycle 2023 - 2025 onwards, the German transmission system operators will charge a fee of €30,000 per market area border, type of request (incremental capacity or upgrade of existing capacity) and direction (entry or exit capacity) for their activities resulting from the submission of non-binding demand indications in accordance with Article 26 (11) of Regulation (EU) 2017/459 (NC CAM). Please note that the fee will also be charged if the transmission of the non-binding demand indication is not submitted to the applicants by the requesting party directly but by a third party (such as an adjacent, foreign TSO) (cf. point 37 BK9-22/042). The approval by the Federal Network Agency and detailed information can be found in Decision BK9-22/042 or here.