End of net metering in 2027: why charging on your own solar power pays off more

Short answer: the Dutch net-metering scheme (salderingsregeling) ends on 1 January 2027. You can then no longer offset the solar power you export against the electricity you draw from the grid in the evening; you only receive feed-in compensation for it, which is far lower than what you pay per kWh. That makes every kWh of solar power you use yourself more valuable. An electric car is a large consumer that you can often shift to sunny hours. Your ERE payment doesn’t change: you receive it on every kWh the integrated MID meter in your charge point measures, whether it came from your roof or the grid.

What changes on 1 January 2027?

The Act of 18 December 2024 (Staatsblad 2025, 17) abolishes net metering as of 1 January 2027. In practice:

Topic	Until the end of 2026	From 1 January 2027
Exported solar power	Offset against the electricity you draw (net metering)	No more offsetting; you receive feed-in compensation
Level of compensation	Up to your own consumption: effectively the full kWh price	A “reasonable compensation”; until 1 January 2030 at least 50% of the agreed supply price
Feed-in costs	Many suppliers already charge them	May only be charged to customers who feed in, and only for costs of processing the exported power
Self-consumed solar power	No energy tax, VAT or supplier costs	Unchanged: still no tax and no supplier costs

A few details from the Act and the government’s explanation:

• Minimum compensation. Until 1 January 2030, compensation is at least 50% of the price you agreed for supplied electricity. The ACM explains that as the price excluding energy tax and VAT, in other words the bare supply tariff.
• Not negative. For a small connection, the compensation itself may not be negative on a monthly average. Feed-in costs are a separate item and can lower what you net further.
• Right to feed in. With a small connection you have the right to feed your solar power back to your own supplier.
• Cancelling without a fee. If you signed a combined supply and feed-in contract before 29 January 2025 and your supplier changes it unilaterally because of this Act, you pay no cancellation fee if you cancel for that reason.

Why self-consumption becomes more valuable

Under net metering, it made little difference to your bill when you used electricity: a kWh you exported during the day was offset in the evening against a kWh from the grid, including energy tax and VAT. From 2027 that no longer applies. A kWh you use yourself saves you the full price, because according to the Dutch government you pay no taxes and no supplier costs on electricity you generate and use directly. A kWh you export only earns the feed-in compensation, minus any feed-in costs.

The figures show how big that gap is. According to CBS (Statistics Netherlands), the average variable supply tariff for electricity in August 2026 was €0.1469 per kWh and energy tax €0.11085 per kWh, both including VAT (provisional figure). Together that’s about €0.258 per kWh. The statutory minimum compensation is half the bare tariff excluding VAT (€0.1469 ÷ 1.21 ≈ €0.1214), so roughly €0.061 per kWh, before feed-in costs. For fixed and variable contracts, Milieu Centraal cites net amounts of roughly half a cent to 1.25 cents per kWh. Using power yourself is therefore worth over four times as much as exporting it at the minimum compensation, and much more after feed-in costs.

That’s why Milieu Centraal advises using as much of your solar power yourself as you can, and explicitly mentions charging your electric car on solar power. Electricity you use yourself also doesn’t count towards feed-in costs.

Where does your ERE payment fit in?

The ERE payment works independently of net metering and doesn’t change in 2027. In its guidance for private individuals, the NEa says that a registration service provider always receives the same number of EREs per kWh charged, whether or not you have solar panels. For home chargers the NEa uses a fixed renewable-electricity percentage: 50.5% in 2026, good for 0.33269 ERE per kWh. The number of kWh comes from the charge point’s meter, meaning the MID meter integrated in your charge point.

That has three consequences:

• Every measured kWh counts, from roof or grid. If you charge on the midday sun, you get exactly as much ERE for that kWh as for a kWh drawn from the grid at night. At the median of named sources of €0.460 per ERE (as of 18 October 2026), that’s about €0.153 gross per kWh, before commission. Why your own generation doesn’t raise the percentage is explained in ERE and solar panels at home.
• ERE doesn’t change when you should charge. Because the ERE per kWh is the same everywhere, charging on sunshine is purely an energy-bill decision. The ERE comes on top either way.
• Feeding back doesn’t count. Electricity your car sends back to the home or grid is not registered under the Energy for Transport Regulation. If you charge bidirectionally, that feeding back earns no ERE.

Note: 1 January 2027 is also a known date in the ERE world, but only for businesses that registered with an external MID meter before 2026. For home chargers nothing changes then: the integrated MID meter has been mandatory for you since 1 January 2026, with no transition year. See also MID meter and 2027. For the year 2027, the regulation uses the CBS renewable-electricity share for 2025; at the time of writing the NEa hasn’t published that figure yet, so the example below uses the 2026 factor.

Worked example: shifting 1,000 kWh to sunshine

We compare two ways of charging in 2027. These are the assumptions:

• You charge 4,000 kWh a year at home, through a charge point with an integrated MID meter.
• Of those 4,000 kWh, you can shift 1,000 kWh to hours when your panels have enough surplus, for example at weekends or on work-from-home days.
• Electricity price: €0.258 per kWh including energy tax and VAT (CBS, August 2026). We assume that price stays the same in 2027; the 2027 tariffs haven’t been set yet.
• Feed-in compensation: the statutory minimum of €0.061 per kWh, without feed-in costs.
• ERE: 0.33269 ERE per kWh (2026 factor) at €0.460 per ERE, gross, before commission.
• We leave out fixed charges, network charges and the energy-tax reduction: they’re the same in both scenarios.

Per year	Scenario 1: all charging in the evening	Scenario 2: 1,000 kWh on sunshine
Solar power exported	1,000 kWh × €0.061 = + €61	0 kWh = €0
Grid electricity for the car	4,000 kWh × €0.258 = - €1,031	3,000 kWh × €0.258 = - €773
Net charging cost	- €970	- €773
ERE, gross (4,000 kWh × 0.33269 × €0.460)	+ €612	+ €612

In this example, charging on sunshine saves about €197 a year (roughly €0.197 per shifted kWh), while the ERE payment is identical in both scenarios: 1,330.76 ERE, about €612 gross. Under net metering the difference between the two scenarios would have been close to zero, because the 1,000 kWh exported were offset against the 1,000 kWh drawn from the grid in the evening (as long as you don’t export more than you use in total).

How the result changes for you:

• If your supplier charges feed-in costs, the difference gets bigger; if it pays more than the minimum, smaller.
• With a dynamic contract, both your purchase price and your feed-in compensation depend on the hourly price, and the difference can vary a lot from day to day.
• If you rent your panels and pay per kWh generated, solar power costs you that rate; see renting or leasing solar panels and ERE.
• Net ERE is lower than gross: your provider deducts a commission or fixed fee. See gross versus net, and work out your own situation with the earnings calculator.

In practice: charging more on your own solar power

• Charge when you’re home and the sun is shining. Weekends, work-from-home days and the summer months offer the most room.
• Check what your charge point can do. Find out whether your charge point or app can make the charging power follow your solar surplus; your model’s specifications will say. However you charge, only a charge point with an integrated MID meter earns ERE; if in doubt, do the charger check.
• Read your energy contract. According to the ACM, your contract states whether and how much your supplier charges in feed-in costs. Those help determine how much you gain from self-consumption from 2027.
• You don’t need to change anything for your ERE. Your provider registers the kWh from your charge point, whatever the time of day. It is a good moment to compare your provider on commission and payout, though; the ERE with solar panels page lists the points to watch for households with panels.

In short

• Net metering ends on 1 January 2027; exported solar power then only earns feed-in compensation, until 2030 at least 50% of the bare supply tariff, minus any feed-in costs.
• Solar power you use yourself saves you the full kWh price including energy tax and VAT, on average about €0.258 per kWh in August 2026.
• The ERE payment doesn’t change: every kWh the integrated MID meter in your charge point measures earns 0.33269 ERE (2026), from roof or grid, about €0.153 gross at €0.460 per ERE.
• In our example, shifting 1,000 kWh to sunshine saves about €197 a year on your energy bill; you receive the roughly €612 gross ERE either way.
• For home chargers, nothing changes in the MID rules on 1 January 2027; they have applied since 1 January 2026.