Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Don't you want to understand or what? They're only going that high now because consumers are getting paid over 40 cents for it (at least for 80% of their consumption). If that weren't the case, you could bet there would be plenty who stayed below 40 cents / kWh.

Tone it down. Do you have evidence for that or did you just overhear it at yesterday's Monday demonstration?

Of all people you... :D Ok, I’ll pull myself together. Honestly, I didn’t find my tone particularly bad, especially not compared to some of your remarks here in the forum. But fine, whatever.

No, I have no evidence, since I’m not sitting in the executives’ meetings at the utilities nor am I a controller or anything like that. One might possibly find evidence in the companies’ annual reports in three to four years, depending on the type of business.

Regardless, you have to admit yourself that the timing in connection with the amount of money involved suggests such conclusions – or are you able to prove otherwise? We have already established above that spot market prices actually have very little to do with consumer prices. Futures, on the other hand, after a fairly high phase in recent months, have dropped sharply again in the last weeks. They are still at a higher level than ante bellum, but not 100% or more, rather 30-50% higher.

So it seems very opportunistic to me.

P.S. I find it amusing that you lump me in with the Monday demonstrators, but above all it shows that you are not reading here very attentively. Even in this thread alone, you can read dozens of diametrically opposed posts from me, but well. You can find individual measures of the self-chosen government (and yes, I at least partially voted for it) stupid without being a corona denier... :rolleyes:

This is especially crazy because now it turns out that the gas price levy might actually have been better (in terms of lower consumption prices)...

I thought that recently too. But now everyone is paying, not just the gas users.

Don’t you want to understand?
They are only going up like this now because consumers get paid over 40 cents (at least for 80% of their consumption). If that weren’t the case, you could bet that there would be enough who stayed below 40 cents / kWh as well.

Do you think so? We already locked in at 45 cents in March/April. And back then no cap was in sight.

Ah sorry guys, I was mistaken. The futures have actually more than doubled compared to ante bellum! I therefore retract my claims. We can be glad if we only have a doubling of electricity prices. My speculations are therefore obsolete, but I still consider the cap to be a wrong incentive.

Ah sorry guys I was wrong. The futures have actually more than doubled compared to ante bellum! I hereby withdraw my claims. We can be glad if we only have a doubling of electricity prices. My speculations are thus invalid, but I still consider the cap to be a wrong incentive.

And that shows once again that no one is allowed to complain about high electricity prices. Everyone could have invested accordingly on the stock exchange and thus refinanced increased costs. But of course, as always: Whoever finds the irony in the above statement may keep it ;-)

Whoever finds the irony in the above statement can keep it ;-)

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