Electricity charged into vehicles earns a premium.

Companies placing fuel on the German market have to cut its greenhouse gas emissions.

That obligation is the greenhouse gas reduction quota. It rises year by year.

Whoever falls short on their own buys reductions from somebody else.

Electricity for electric vehicles counts as such a reduction.

The law converts the energy charged into emissions saved.

That is the source of the premium reaching the vehicle keeper or the charge point operator.

For an operator the proceeds are income on top of the charging tariff.

Since 2022 private keepers have been able to take that route as well.

Publicly accessible means anybody can drive up and charge.

A staff car park behind a barrier usually falls outside that.

The charge point also has to be registered with the Bundesnetzagentur, the federal network agency.

Claims go to the Umweltbundesamt, the federal environment agency, in practice through a broker.

The broker bundles many claims, sells the reduction and pays out the proceeds.

A fleet files for its vehicles in one batch.

A claim covers one calendar year and is paid out in the following one.

Fixed deadlines apply in that following year.

The amount moves from year to year with the price of a reduction.

If your charge points are publicly accessible, every kilowatt-hour carries an amount.

Which route fits depends on who is allowed to charge at your points.

What you need is a solid statement of the energy charged per charge point and period.

Each charge point counts with its whole year. A missing month is a missing part of the premium.

Filing the claim is quick. The work sits in the underlying figures.

Collecting those figures by hand from several portals costs time and money.

CPIM records every session with its meter reading, its charge point and its timestamp.

The period is yours to pick, from a single day to a full year.

Totals are grouped by charge point, card, user or provider.

The export produces the file you hand on.