The use of a load profile meter is mandatory in Austria for back-up fuses greater than 63A. This means that your energy consumption and power requirements are recorded and transmitted to the grid operator, just like with a smart meter in the home.

If this is the case in your company, this means that in addition to your energy consumption (kWh), you also have to pay for grid usage according to output. In addition, when you connected to the grid, you had to pay for a “grid provision power”, which corresponds to the maximum cumulative power to be drawn.