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Date on which the Act of 13 November 2023 was signed into law, promulgating the Energy Efficiency Act as its Article 1. The date of the Bundestag vote is not recorded here; it lies before the signing.
Entry into force of the Energy Efficiency Act under Article 3 of the umbrella Act.
Start of application; the Act has no application date different from its entry into force.
From this date operators of data centres must cover 50 per cent of their electricity consumption with electricity from renewable sources on a balance-sheet basis.
First transmission of the waste heat information to the Federal Office for Energy Efficiency.
Operators of information technology had to provide the Federation with the information under Section 13(2) for 2023 by 31 March 2024. The deadline has passed.
First transmission of the data centre information for data centres of 500 kilowatts and above.
Latest date for implementing an energy or environmental management system in data centres.
First transmission of the data centre information for data centres from 200 to below 500 kilowatts.
Latest date by which companies that had exceeded the consumption threshold by 17 November 2023 must have an energy or environmental management system in place.
Moving deadline: companies that reach the status under Section 8(1) from 18 November 2023 must have the energy or environmental management system in place no later than 20 months after that point. The date shown is the earliest possible expiry of that deadline; for each company it moves with the day on which it crosses the threshold.
Start of the obligation to validate or certify the energy or environmental management system in larger data centres.
Data centres commissioned from this date are subject to the stricter requirements for new builds.
From this date operators of data centres must cover their electricity consumption entirely with electricity from renewable sources on a balance-sheet basis.
From this date existing data centres must achieve a power usage effectiveness of 1.5 or below.
Data centres commissioned from this date must show a planned share of reused energy of at least 15 per cent.
Exemption date: data centres and information technology scheduled to go out of operation before 1 July 2027 are exempt from the requirements of Section 12(1), (2), (3) and (5). The operator has to provide the supporting evidence.
Data centres commissioned from this date must show a planned share of reused energy of at least 20 per cent.
From this date existing data centres must achieve a power usage effectiveness of 1.3 or below.
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Date on which the Act of 13 November 2023 was signed into law, promulgating the Energy Efficiency Act as its Article 1. The date of the Bundestag vote is not recorded here; it lies before the signing.
Entry into force of the Energy Efficiency Act under Article 3 of the umbrella Act.
Start of application; the Act has no application date different from its entry into force.
From this date operators of data centres must cover 50 per cent of their electricity consumption with electricity from renewable sources on a balance-sheet basis.
First transmission of the waste heat information to the Federal Office for Energy Efficiency.
Operators of information technology had to provide the Federation with the information under Section 13(2) for 2023 by 31 March 2024. The deadline has passed.
First transmission of the data centre information for data centres of 500 kilowatts and above.
Latest date for implementing an energy or environmental management system in data centres.
First transmission of the data centre information for data centres from 200 to below 500 kilowatts.
Latest date by which companies that had exceeded the consumption threshold by 17 November 2023 must have an energy or environmental management system in place.
Moving deadline: companies that reach the status under Section 8(1) from 18 November 2023 must have the energy or environmental management system in place no later than 20 months after that point. The date shown is the earliest possible expiry of that deadline; for each company it moves with the day on which it crosses the threshold.
Start of the obligation to validate or certify the energy or environmental management system in larger data centres.
Data centres commissioned from this date are subject to the stricter requirements for new builds.
From this date operators of data centres must cover their electricity consumption entirely with electricity from renewable sources on a balance-sheet basis.
From this date existing data centres must achieve a power usage effectiveness of 1.5 or below.
Data centres commissioned from this date must show a planned share of reused energy of at least 15 per cent.
Exemption date: data centres and information technology scheduled to go out of operation before 1 July 2027 are exempt from the requirements of Section 12(1), (2), (3) and (5). The operator has to provide the supporting evidence.
Data centres commissioned from this date must show a planned share of reused energy of at least 20 per cent.
From this date existing data centres must achieve a power usage effectiveness of 1.3 or below.
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Date on which the data centre started operation
>= 2026-07-01
Non-redundant rated connected load of the data centre (kW)
>= 300 kW
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Entity excluded under the security and nuclear exemption
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