Postpone electricity purchases and benefit from lower grid utilisation prices
Primeo NetzAktiv is an alternative to the standard grid utilisation tariff. You benefit from Primeo NetzAktiv if you postpone your electricity consumption to times when the electricity grid is under low load.
Are you interested in the Primeo NetzAktiv optional tariff?
You are a customer in the Basic customer group with an annual energy consumption of up to 50,000 kilowatt hours and have larger shiftable energy purchases (e.g. electric cars, heat pumps, etc.). If you shift your electricity consumption to times when either a lot of electricity is being produced or the grid is under low demand, you can reduce your grid usage costs by up to 10 per cent. Household customers with an annual consumption of around 4,500 kilowatt hours (plus 3,000 kilowatt hours per year of shiftable consumption, for example in the form of an electric car or a home storage battery) can save around CHF 100 per year.
How does the new optional tariff work?
The Primeo NetzAktiv optional tariff is an alternative to the existing standard grid utilisation tariff. It includes more tariff periods with different prices for the consumption-based part of the grid usage tariff (labour price). The prices are divided into high, medium and low tariffs, and the tariff periods are divided according to the time of day and time of year (summer and winter). In simple terms, this means that when a lot of electricity is produced by photovoltaic systems and fed into the grid, a lot should be consumed. The price is then lower and more attractive. This also applies to times when little electricity is consumed, such as at night. Shifting consumption to the night also reduces the load on the grid.
Tariff change
You can apply to switch tariffs directly on this page (below). As a rule, the switch will take place within four weeks on the 1st of the following month. Please note that you can switch back at the earliest after one year, at the beginning of each quarter.
You can find more information in the flyer under ‘Prices and further information’.
Prices and further information
Questions - Answers
If you have larger electricity purchases, such as for an electric car, a heat pump or a home storage battery, and you can shift these purchases to times when the electricity grid is under little load or The following graphic or the tariff times overview shows you the times when you benefit from particularly favourable grid usage tariffs (see also the PrimeoNetzAktiv flyer under Prices and further information).
The following applications with a higher energy requirement are particularly suitable for load shifting:
Charging an electric car: 3000 Kilowattstunden
Operating a heat pump: 4000-6000 kilowatt hours
(Energy requirement per year, reference values)
- Meter readings are no longer shown on the bill. Only the consumption data is displayed.
- The customer portal also displays the load profile and the download options.
You can find this information in the myPrimeo customer portal. You will find your metering points under Consumption & Production. If ‘Load profile meter’ is indicated under Meter type, then you have a load profile measurement.
If you see the following information, you do not have a load profile measurement:
«Register values» means that you will receive instalment invoices and a final invoice with the annual consumption measured.
«Smart meter» means that you generally have a monthly meter reading.
At least 4 weeks in advance to the 1st of the following month.
As a rule, if no loads are actively shifted, you will fare worse than with the current tariff.
The consumption of household customers is not lower at weekends than during the week, rather the opposite. At the same time, on sunny summer Sundays, for example, there are hours with high PV feed-in and low consumption. It therefore also makes sense at weekends to incentivise load shifting to the afternoon hours by means of high, medium and low tariffs.
When changing tariffs, a minimum term of one year applies. After this minimum term has expired, you can always cancel at the end of the quarter. The cancellation period is one month. Primeo Energie must be notified of the change in writing.
As envisaged in the framework decree, there will be more so-called dynamic tariffs in future in order to make the mapping of energy production and demand more active (smart). This optional tariff is a first step: grid-friendly behaviour will be rewarded and the corresponding reduction in grid expansion will also result in lower costs.
