Network tariffs are incurred to make sure gas reaches your home reliably. Network operators impose them to cover their costs for expanding, modernising and maintaining the gas network. The tariffs are passed on to gas suppliers, which in turn pass them on to final customers as part of the household customer price. In this way, final customers indirectly finance the costs of the gas network.

Network tariffs are paid by commercial and industrial customers as well as household customers. A typical household customer in the energy monitoring is assumed to have an annual consumption of 23,250 kWh. A typical commercial customer is assumed to be a final customer with an annual gas consumption of 116,277 kWh. Companies with an annual gas consumption of 116,277,000 kWh are classed as industrial customers. These categories are taken from the examples used by Eurostat.

The network tariffs charged for 2025 by selected network operators:

^{IM: interval metered, SLP: standard load profile, all values in ct/kWh}

A list of the network tariffs of all German network operators for 2025 can be accessed here and downloaded[1].

Network tariffs can vary greatly by region and network operator. There are many reasons for this, including:

• Population density: in less densely populated areas, the network costs are shared between a smaller number of users.
• Network age: older networks with a low residual value entail lower network costs than new networks.
• Network utilisation: the network capacity was generously sized, particularly in the eastern German states, and is therefore not always sufficiently utilised.
• The shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources and the related dismantling of the gas network will mean that costs are shared among a shrinking group of users in future.

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[1] Network tariffs for industrial customers are shown only for networks in which at least one customer is supplied with at least 116,277,000 kWh a year.