Gas: Costs for consumers are expected to rise sharply from October
Created: 08/01/2022 15:34
By: Carina Blumenroth
Gas importers are expected to be able to pass on their additional costs to consumers from October.
The allocations are limited in time, initially until March 2024.
The energy and gas costs are currently increasing extremely, which is partly a result of the Ukraine war.
In order to ensure the gas importers' ability to act and to guarantee the energy supply, it should be possible to pass on the additional costs to the consumers.
This is expected to be the case from October 2022.
According to information from the
Tagesschau
, it is still unclear how much the price will rise.
This depends on the amount to which gas importers can claim compensation payments.
More information will be shared at the end of August.
Consumers can feel the gas surcharge from October 2022.
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Gas levy on consumers: Consequence of the war and the throttling of Russian imports
Some gas importers have concluded long-term contracts for the import of Russian gas - the supply was stopped by Russia as a result of the Ukraine war.
For the gas importers, this meant that they had to reschedule at short notice and had to procure expensive replacement gas.
It should be possible to pass these additional costs on to consumers in the future.
Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) named a possible price range between 1.5 and five cents per kilowatt hour
, according to
the Tagesschau .
This is also related to the additional costs for the company.
It is not yet possible to estimate more precisely, but there will probably be a few hundred euros per household.
The consumer
portal Check24
reports on
Focus
additional costs of between 357 and 1,190 euros per year for a four-person model household with an annual consumption of 20,000 kilowatt hours.
These costs depend on the amount of the surcharge.
Gas surcharge: protect people from poverty, but the state cannot cover all the costs
The gas surcharges are a necessary step, the costs for consumers would be made bearable.
The
Tagesschau
quotes Robert Habeck as follows: "But the people who are really being led into poverty by the higher energy prices must be protected".
What exactly this protection looks like is not yet clear.
The planned gas levy is met with criticism, especially from the left, since it is not feasible, especially for low-income people.
In the
ZDF morning magazine
The energy policy spokesman for the left, Lorenz Gösta Beutin, calls for a gas price cap.
"We want an energy flat rate for low-income households and, on the other hand, higher rates for Hartz IV and student loans."
The background is that these sentences "really secure the existence", because this is not given by the inflation.
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According to reports, the additional costs will become noticeable to consumers a little later than October 2022.
These are limited to around one and a half years – probably until the end of March 2024.
For the implementation, paragraph 26 of the Energy Security Act is to come into force by ministerial decree.
The paragraph empowers the federal government to enact an ordinance without the consent of the Bundesrat.
As soon as this is the case, the difference in the additional costs can be shared equally among the consumers.
The
Tagesschau
reports that the surcharge is initially calculated based on an assumption of the costs, which would then be offset against the actual costs afterwards.
