In 2024, emergency interventions for managing overloaded electricity networks cost approximately 4.3 billion euros.

Omissions

• The MEP did not cite the source: the figure comes from ACER's 2025 report on cross-zonal electricity trade and congestion management.
• The term 'emergency interventions' is a paraphrase of ACER's technical term 'remedial actions,' which encompasses redispatch, countertrading, and curtailment measures taken by TSOs to relieve grid congestion.
• The €4.3 billion covered 60 TWh of remedial actions — equivalent to Austria's annual electricity consumption — providing context on the scale of the problem.

Sources

• PrimaryEU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER)In 2024, EU TSOs spent €4.3 billion on 60 TWh (comparable to Austria's annual electricity consumption) of remedial actions to manage EU power grid congestion.
• SecondaryInternational Energy Agency (IEA)grid congestion costs amounted to EUR 4.3 billion in 2024 – and this did not factor in indirect costs, such as the economic impact of curtailed renewable generation.