Gas price increase as of 1.1.2022

It doesn't just concern gas. With heat pumps, it's even more extreme. So far, we've paid 21 cents and now the cheapest is 26 cents or right after that 30 cents.

So a 30 to 50% increase in one year. That makes several hundred euros more in heating costs. Quite intense.

I have now found a heat pump tariff at 21 cents, but not through comparison portals, rather directly on the web.

And actually, electricity should become cheaper, as the Renewable Energy Act surcharge is reduced by 3 cents starting 01.01.22.

Right now, it's really good to have a fireplace or stove ;)

I have now found a heat pump tariff at 21 cents, but not through comparison portals, rather directly on the web.

Which provider? Then I might switch right away

Heat electricity should go from 19 to 26 cents here. I have also found the Stadtwerke Magdeburg with the "Turbine" products - without the portals. They keep the 19 cents (by the way, at the other end of the nation), however they do it. Contract confirmation and registration are already done.

Which provider? Then I might switch right away

Energie und Wasser Potsdam (plus Zusatzwörter)

:p Hehe… Thanks ~.~ Well. There is always a coupling: formerly oil/gas, today gas/electricity My "wisdom" in #118 I actually got from my consumer advice newsletter Verbraucherzentrale NDS.

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Summer in Germany was low in wind and sunshine, therefore more electricity products generated by natural gas have to be used. [*]The phase-out of nuclear power and coal production causes the demand for gas for further electricity production to rise. [*] Source Plusminus, the first: [LIST] [*]The missing expansion of renewable energies will drive the electricity price up in the coming years [*]Expensive electricity endangers the competitiveness of German companies [*]Voltage fluctuations in the power grid cause problems for medium-sized companies [*]German electricity could become scarce, expensive electricity from foreign nuclear and coal power plants would then have to be purchased [/]
[*] By 2023, the electricity price could rise from the current nearly 32 to 37 cents per kilowatt hour. According to experts, the slow expansion of renewable energies is mainly responsible. [*] [*] The price increase in electricity is directly related to the hesitant expansion of renewable energies, explains Prof. Jürgen Karl of the University of Nuremberg-Erlangen. To ensure supply security in Germany, conventional fossil power plants must compensate for the supply gap when there is too little green electricity. "As long as we can provide so little renewable energy, it is simply the case that expensive gas power plants, even oil power plants, have to be used increasingly," says Prof. Jürgen Karl. "The more often we have to use these expensive gas power plants, the more expensive electricity becomes." The fact that the expansion of renewables is progressing too slowly has been ignored by the federal government for years – experts agree on this assessment. This development has consequences for the electricity price of the future. The expansion of onshore wind power, for example, has almost come to a halt due to distance regulations. In addition, partly years-long approval procedures significantly delay the expansion.

The main thing is that we dumb Germans always have to be the pioneers everywhere...

The main thing is that we stupid Germans always have to be the pioneers everywhere...

Even in this context, a quote by Martin Niemöller always comes to my mind:

"When the Nazis came for the Communists, I remained silent; I was not a Communist.
When they came for the trade unionists, I remained silent; I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I was not a Jew.
When they came for me, there was no one left to protest."

It can be well adapted to environmental protection... In that sense, I think it is very good that Germany is doing it, less good how they are doing it...