Fronius’ business is based on two large pillars – welding technology and solar technology – as well as the significantly smaller area of battery charging systems. The PV area has been like a mountain and valley railway since Corona. After a solar boom in 2023, the PV market had already shrunk somewhat in the previous year, but in the first half of 2025 it decreased by a whopping 30 percent, according to the CEO. As a cause of the decline in the market, it makes up for the withdrawal of grants. However, various announcements regarding ELWG would also provide “great uncertainty” and a lack of planning security. The law has not yet been decided, but “something is going on: something is going on. It is still profitable or not?”
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More electricity needs from AI and digitization
In the ELWG design, she primarily criticizes the additional network charges. “The profitability of a PV system is decreasing” – for household customers as well as for energy supply companies or large investors. The network fees in Austria would already be “one of the highest in the entire EU”. They had survived to modernize in time. However, it is fixed “we will need more electricity in the future”, for example for artificial intelligence and digitization.
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