Balancing energy and gas storage - additional charges for gas customers

Created: 08/18/2022Updated: 08/18/2022 12:44 p.m

On October 1st, further charges will apply to gas customers.

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As of October 1st, gas suppliers will be subject to further allocations for so-called control energy, among other things.

However, the extent to which this will be passed on to end users is still unclear.

Ratingen - In addition to the gas levy to save important importers, gas customers could face other levies.

From October 1, gas suppliers will have to pay 0.57 cents for so-called control energy for every kilowatt hour of natural gas consumed by households, as the company Trading Hub Europe (THE) announced on Thursday in Ratingen.

For companies, the surcharge is 0.39 cents per kilowatt hour.

Whether and to what extent these surcharges will be passed on from the gas suppliers to the end consumers is an open question.

They would then be added to the already published gas surcharge of 2.419 cents per kilowatt hour.

THE is a joint venture of the long-distance gas network operators.

It always uses control energy, i.e. gas, when the ratio between gas volumes fed in and out is not balanced in the nationwide gas network.

The costs are allocated.

This levy, which has existed for several years, is currently zero euros.

The amount of the gas storage levy was also published on Thursday.

It is 0.059 cents per kilowatt hour.

With an annual consumption of 20,000 kilowatt hours, this would mean additional costs of 11.80 euros per household without VAT per year just for the gas storage levy.

Here too, however, it is still unclear whether and how it will be passed on to consumers.

The gas storage surcharge is intended to compensate THE for the costs incurred to ensure security of supply, i.e. for gas purchases.

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