Germany collected EUR 2.5 billion from companies' extra profits during the 2022 energy crisis.
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No source found explicitly states that Germany collected exactly EUR 2.5 billion from windfall profits; the sources give expected/planned ranges (EUR 1–3 billion for the fossil-fuel 'EU energy crisis contribution' and EUR 2–4 billion for the electricity producer levy).
Actual cash receipts from Germany's EU energy crisis contribution were around EUR 1.8 billion, booked in August 2024 — i.e. below the claimed EUR 2.5 billion and collected after 2022, not during 2022.
The claim conflates the year of the energy crisis/profits (2022) with the year the levy was actually collected (2023–2024).
Two distinct German measures are involved (fossil-fuel solidarity contribution and electricity producer revenue cap), so a single 'EUR 2.5 billion' figure is ambiguous.
The Bundestag research paper figure (EUR 16.497 billion for fiscal year 2022) is EU-wide, not German.