In September, the state settlement agency OeMAG paid more than 6 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) for the first time since February. Individual electricity providers and energy communities also purchase PV electricity for a little more. However, compensation of over 50 cents, like during the energy crisis, is a thing of the past.
The central benchmark for PV electricity is the “market price”, which has been calculated monthly in retrospect by OeMAG since this year. This year it fell from 8.14 cents in January to the summer every month and was only 4.65 cents from April to June. Since then, things have increased slightly month after month, after 5.34 cents in July and 5.83 cents in August, solar power fed in was paid by OeMAG at 6.04 cents per kWh in September.
In principle, any photovoltaic system with a maximum output of 500 kWp can feed in its electricity via OeMAG and therefore at this price. Most recently, almost 130,000 PV system operators had market price contracts with OeMAG.
