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Margrethe Vestager, Commissioner in charge of competition, said: "Competitive bidding processes support the deployment of renewable energy whilst keeping electricity costs at bay for consumers.

Similarly, Germany explained that, for the purpose of calculating electricity costs, average retail electricity prices were not available for all undertakings, at least not for higher consumption bands; instead, the calculation of electricity costs would be based on the actual electricity costs incurred in the years 2011 and 2012, as those figures were the ones submitted by the undertakings in their applications for the reductions in 2013 and 2014.

On the basis of Germany's explanations, the Commission concluded in its decision in case SA.38632 (2014/N) that the transitional rules in the EEG-Act 2014 allowing the use of GVA data at factor costs based on the last business year or the last two business years, as well as the use of real electricity costs of the last business year, were in line with the 2014 Guidelines, and in particular with point 195 (recitals 311 to 314 of that Decision). This was because that data, that is to say the GVA at factor costs based on the last year and the real electricity costs of the last year, would be applied only on a transitional basis until the da ...[+++]ta required by Annex 4 to the 2014 Guidelines had been gathered.

§ 40 EEG-Act 2012 states that that limitation is intended to reduce the electricity costs for those undertakings in order to maintain their international competitiveness, in so far as this is compatible with the goals of the EEG-Act 2012 and the limit imposed is still compatible with the interest of the electricity users as a whole.

According to point 4 of Annex 4 to the 2014 Guidelines, the definition of an undertaking's electricity costs is notably based on the undertaking's assumed electricity price.

The increase in electricity costs may be explicit through a specific charge which is levied from electricity consumers on top of the electricity price or indirect through additional costs faced by electricity suppliers due to obligations to buy renewable energy which are subsequently passed on to their customers, the electricity consumers.