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Who is currently switching their electricity tariff? The market price has recently fallen again, but I have read several recent articles saying that it will stay rather high in the medium to long term and even become more expensive again. So I thought I'd better secure a long-term price guarantee now at a higher but calculable level. Besides, I found a provider who still offers only 1 month’s cancellation notice (Octupus). I’m not too fond of the British parent company, but at least it’s an eco tariff. 144 EUR base price (relatively high), and just over 40 cents / kWh. Berliner Stadtwerke unfortunately don’t budge from their 52.9 cents / kWh. Luckily I can also cancel with 1 month’s notice. If the price for long-term contracts falls again in the summer, I can always cancel again. What are you all up to?

Who is currently switching their electricity tariff?
The stock market price has recently dropped again, but I have read several fresh articles saying that it will stay rather high in the medium to long term and even get more expensive again.
So I thought I'd better secure a long-term price guarantee now at a somewhat higher but calculable level.
Besides, I found a provider who still only offers a 1-month notice period (Octopus).
I’m not entirely comfortable with the British parent origin, but at least it’s an eco-tariff.
144 EUR base price (relatively high), and just over 40 cents / kWh.
Unfortunately, Berliner Stadtwerke won’t budge from their 52.9 cents / kWh. Luckily, I can also cancel with a 1-month notice period.
If the price for long-term contracts drops again in summer, I can just cancel again.
What about you?

My home electricity provider wanted to raise prices sharply in autumn, so I reluctantly signed a fixed 1-year contract elsewhere for 45 cents, thanks to photovoltaics our consumption is rather low there.
For the heat pump contract, where we consume significantly more, Stadtwerke München wanted to increase the peak rate from about 20 cents to about 70 cents and the off-peak rate similarly at the turn of the year. I canceled and first went to basic supply at 19 cents peak and 15 cents off-peak. Great price and I can react quickly there.

144 EUR base price (relatively high), and just over 40 cents / kWh.

And Vattenfall is really even more expensive? kWh probably similar, but the base price should be lower.
With a 1 month notice period, you can also check Maingau. I read that somewhere myself and also received a tariff offer for Berlin. 120 EUR base price, but under 40 cents working price.

What are you up to?

Good question, just received the increase for 39.xx cents from March. Due to lack of alternatives, I will probably have to stay.
I am curious when the increase for heat pump electricity will come. Then it will probably get really bitter.

Where can the basic supplier prices actually be looked up?

Learned nothing, huh? Next winter there could be price explosions again if it finally gets really cold for a change. I hope the municipal utility companies then completely refuse to cater to all the bargain hunters who are already rushing to the direct suppliers again for 25 EUR less per month... the basic suppliers saved the asses of many, many households when their "suppliers" simply canceled on them or suddenly demanded five times the advance payment. The existing customers also paid for that.

And especially from people who live in single-family houses and actually have more than enough money. You really lose all faith in the solidarity community and humanity in general...

Ne Vattenfall is (with the green tariff) a bit more expensive per kWh and even more expensive in the basic fee, but above all it does not offer the combination of a short cancellation period with a long price guarantee (at least 12 months duration on both sides). Maingau has a higher coal mix share than the German electricity mix, which I did not want to support now. So the one-month contract duration and cancellation period with a simultaneously longer price guarantee is only available at Octopus (at least with my postal code, as far as I can see).

So I don't exactly know who you're addressing. I was one of the long-standing existing customers and am now supposed to co-finance all the new customers with a higher electricity price starting in January. If they hadn't all switched over, the price for me would have remained the same for now. The municipal utilities could have done it differently and, for example, only imposed higher prices on new customers. By the way, contrary to what the name suggests, the Berliner Stadtwerke are not the basic supplier in Berlin; that is Vattenfall. Exactly because of the forecast for the winter, which is also shared by so-called experts, I looked for a long-term price guarantee – and supposedly found one. We'll see. I don't want to just rest on the basic supply either; the price can be adjusted very quickly within two weeks (or a month?). You might as well go to one of those daily price guys.