Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Yes, I understand, but what if he can no longer get everything he needs regionally? What I meant is, maybe it’s the same with your supplier as Berliner Stadtwerke explained to me. They have so many new customers that they can no longer manage from their own production and/or regionally. So they have to buy on the market. And again, I don’t know if that’s true. But it would at least be plausible.

But just you wait

Will I? In May 2024 I also think yes

The issue of distribution is clear to me. But the point is that he buys his electricity quotas in the region. The price for photovoltaic electricity is clearly understandable. There is no new wind turbine either, the existing ones also have fixed prices. There are also long-term contracts with the biogas plant operators. In our town, we have a larger local heating network that is completely operated with biogas. The operator has a contract for the electricity he sells until 2030. So he doesn't get a cent more. From my point of view, the energy companies are currently making a real killing.

Have you ever asked them how they explain the higher prices then?

I thought so. I myself gave the hint with MM. But why should I switch from a 17 cent tariff to 30 cents when the price guarantee brings me nothing? See stromio, gas.de etc. End of 2021. But just wait, you will definitely get an increase as well.

The price guarantees are a fixed part of the contract, confirmed by the regional court (?). In other words: The provider can’t get out of it. Not even Gas.de... You write a few emails with their lawyers, reject all nonsense, start a procedure at the Energy Ombudsman and in the end accept their offer that covers the full additional costs. Yes, it is effort. But I have only made a better hourly wage for emails with our tax return. We received €1,800 from Gas.de.

(Warning, what follows is half-knowledge...) Wasn't the drama anyway that the electricity price is determined by the most expensive producer still needed (which currently is electricity from gas)? So, I don't really know how long-term contracts and local producers and such come into play... but as far as I know, people in northern Germany have also been complaining for a while that they produce cheap green electricity and still the electricity is just as expensive (or even more expensive) for consumers as in the rest of Germany. So, the price formation of electricity in general is somewhat strange.

The price guarantees are a fixed part of the contract, confirmed by the regional court (?). In other words: the provider can’t get out of it. Not even Gas.de...

You write a few emails with their lawyers, reject all nonsense, start a procedure at the Energy Arbitration Board, and finally accept their offer that covers all the additional costs.

Yes, it’s effort. But I only get a better hourly rate than for the emails with our tax return. We received €1,800 from Gas.de.

Okay, you got the money back, we did too by the way, but the end of the story was that you ended up in the basic supply or had to look for a replacement supply. So it’s only a matter of time until everyone pays the same price.