The fee for renewable energy sources will remain on electricity bills in 2026, 24.5 million KM will be paid – the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted the Decision on determining the required amount of fee and unit fee for encouraging the production of electricity from renewable energy sources and efficient cogeneration (OIEiEK) for the year 2026, published in the “Official Gazette of FBiH”, number 100/2025.
The decision established that during 2026, the collection of a special charge on electricity bills, which is paid by all end customers in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, will continue.
What is the fee amount
The total amount of funds planned for encouraging renewable sources and efficient cogeneration in 2026 amounts to 24,540,511.61 KM.
The unit fee is set at 0.003524 KM per kilowatt-hour (kWh), excluding VAT. The fee is calculated in proportion to electricity consumption and is shown as a separate item on the electricity bill.
The fee is not new, but the amount is growing
It is important to emphasize that this fee is not new. It is a long-standing mechanism that is applied on the basis of the Law on the Use of Renewable Energy Sources and Efficient Cogeneration in the FBiH, and every year the Government determines the amount of the total required amount and the unit price per kWh by special decision.
In other words, citizens and the economy have been financing the system of encouraging renewable sources for years, while the financial framework changes every year.
Who pays and how the funds are collected
The fee is paid by all final customers of electricity in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, regardless of whether they are in the public supply system or have a selected market supplier.
The following are responsible for the calculation and collection of fees: public suppliers, for customers in the public supply system, that is, public electricity companies; reserve suppliers, in cases where market supply is interrupted; and selected market suppliers, for customers who concluded a contract outside the public supply system.
The suppliers are obliged to remit the collected funds to the Operator’s account for OIEiEK, no later than the 25th of the month for the previous month.
What is more than 24 million KM spent on?
The funds from this fee are the income of the Operator for OIEiEK and are used to pay incentives and premiums to privileged electricity producers, cover the difference between the price achieved at FIT auctions and the market price of electricity, and finance the work of the Operator, as well as the implementation of the one-time co-financing program for the construction of prosumer facilities from the household category, for which 4 million KM is provided.
Although it is a legally based mechanism, the decision raises several important questions. The fee is paid by all end customers, regardless of their social status or the possibility of investing in their own sources of electricity. Thus, households that do not have the financial opportunity to participate in the energy transition participate in the financing of a system from which they do not directly benefit.
In addition, although almost 25 million KM is collected annually from citizens and the economy, transparent and comparable data on the actual users of incentives and the overall effects of the system are not easily available to the public.
The decision enters into force on the day of its adoption, without prior public discussion. Although such a procedure is in accordance with valid procedures, the issue of transparency and public oversight of one of the key financial mechanisms of energy policy is additionally raised.
The decision for 2026 does not represent a turning point in energy policy, but a continuation of the existing model in which the development of renewable sources is financed collectively, through the electricity bills of all consumers, writes Herzegovina Info.
