Reactive Power Costs
The reactive power costs comprise the costs associated with the manual and automated provision of reactive power and any additional measures required for voltage control. They are published annually for the preceding year once the final settlements have been completed.
Reactive Power Costs (2026)
Year | Number of activations | Reactive energy delivered [Gvarh] | thereof overexcited [Gvarh] | thereof underexcited [Gvarh] | Total costs of reactive energy procurement |
2025 | 358* | 783,90 | 86,60 | 652,30 | € 88.244,19 |
2024 | 1033 | 1426,55 | 35,50 | 1391,05 | € 139.388,71 |
2023 | 1549 | 1141,62 | 39,80 | 1101,82 | € 66.034,94 |
2022 | 1210 | 547,30 | 63,04 | 484,27 | € 189.179,68 |
2021 | 1039 | 461,56 | 77,4 | 384,15 | € 111.782,02 |
2020 | 1802 | 747,48 | 61,02 | 686,46 | € 75.379,23 |
2019 | 1884 | 206,38 | 116,13 | 90,25 | € 73.767,00 |
| * Introduction of full operation of the automated Q(U)-control of the Danube power plants | |||||