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Weilheim-Schongau: Upside down world - when it comes to electricity, new customers have to dig deeper into their pockets

2022-01-24T07:09:43.368Z


Weilheim-Schongau: Upside down world - when it comes to electricity, new customers have to dig deeper into their pockets Created: 01/24/2022, 08:00 New customers in the district currently have to pay significantly more than existing customers. © (symbol photo) Rainer Droese via www.imago-images.de Upside down world for electricity and gas customers in the district: While regional providers used


Weilheim-Schongau: Upside down world - when it comes to electricity, new customers have to dig deeper into their pockets

Created: 01/24/2022, 08:00

New customers in the district currently have to pay significantly more than existing customers.

© (symbol photo) Rainer Droese via www.imago-images.de

Upside down world for electricity and gas customers in the district: While regional providers used to lure new customers with cheaper entry-level tariffs, new customers currently have to pay significantly more than existing customers - or they are not accepted at all.

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In the foreseeable future, the regional electricity supplier “17er Oberlandenergie” will not be adding any more electricity customers to the current 14,000. The company – an amalgamation of the municipal utilities of Murnau and the municipal utilities of Bad Tölz, Geretsried, Penzberg and Wolfratshausen, as well as currently 23 municipalities in the Oberland – has decided to stop admissions for those whose previous providers have mostly gone bankrupt. The reason for this: The prices on the electricity exchange, which have increased around fourfold.

"We would have to buy the electricity at short notice, the real price for this would be more than one euro per kilowatt hour (kWh), we can't ask for that," says Thomas Feistl, one of the two managing directors of the company.

The other option, involving long-standing customers in the higher purchase prices, is out of the question for him.

They currently pay 28.8 cents per kWh plus basic fee.

Like other companies, “17er Oberlandenergie” usually buys the certified electricity for its existing customers years in advance – in some cases as early as 2027 – at guaranteed prices.

The significantly higher price should now be demanded from new customers.

Waiting list for potential new customers

Anyone who wants to become a customer of “17er Oberlandenergie”, which draws 100 percent of its electricity from hydropower, will be put on a waiting list.

If the market calms down, he will be contacted, says Managing Director Feistl.

Stadtwerke Weilheim is currently experiencing a veritable rush of new customers.

The municipal company currently receives around 40 new applications per day.

That's about one percent of the approximately 4,000 customers.

According to managing director Peter Müller, a freeze on admission was also discussed, but then rejected.

Instead, new customers have to pay a higher price.

– 39.95 cents per kWh instead of 29.95, plus the monthly basic fee of 11.25 euros.

The rush should be curbed somewhat by the higher prices.

The aim is to bring both prices together in the medium term, according to Müller.

Richard Krüger, deputy board member and commercial manager and authorized signatory of the Peißenberg municipal works, also reports that there are "very, very many inquiries at the moment".

In contrast to Stadtwerke Weilheim and "17er Oberlandenergie", the municipal company is one of the so-called basic suppliers because it also largely owns the power grid in the market town and is the largest local provider;

This means that the municipal utilities have to take on new customers.

But they pay a higher price for this: currently around 45 cents per kilowatt hour instead of the normal around 31 cents, plus a basic fee of around 12.50 euros.

For a three-person household, that means additional costs of around 490 euros per year on average.

Electricity providers do not announce the number of their new customers

LEW, the company belonging to EON, does not disclose the number of new customers. The demand from the Schongau area has also increased, says LEW press spokesman Ingo Butters when asked. Like the municipal works in Peißenberg, LEW is also a basic supplier – including in the old district of Schongau. In the core area, in Bavarian Swabia and western Upper Bavaria, the Lech power plants have around 500,000 private and business customers. New customers from the original distribution area in the basic service currently pay the same price as existing customers. At Lechwerke, this is currently 30.89 cents per kWh plus just under ten euros per month. However, if you want to change and come from outside the core area, you have to be patient: the prices for electricity and gas are currently being recalculated,The company's website is being revised.

All these companies also offer gas for heat supply. And natural gas has become even more expensive, although the price has now fallen slightly, according to Krüger. In Peißenberg, new customers pay 19.2 cents and existing customers 8.2 cents per kWh. Nobody wanted to predict what the prices will look like in the coming year. Feistl, Müller, Krüger and Butters were unanimous in their criticism of politics: "It is unacceptable that discount providers make tempting offers in times of low stock market prices and then leave their customers out in the rain and no longer supply them when energy costs rise", says Ingo Butters, for example. That must be stopped.

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Source: merkur

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