After comparison with mother-in-law: Electricity bill leaves Munich outraged – "How can it be?"

Created: 12/22/2022, 06:08

By: Julian Limmer

Bernd Gerstlauer with the announcements from the municipal utility: The Munich resident pays around twice as much as his mother-in-law in Landshut.

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In the future, a Munich resident should pay more than twice as much for his electricity as his mother-in-law in Landshut.

The 66-year-old is surprised.

Munich – When Bernd Gerstlauer (66) compared the two electricity price announcements, he was flabbergasted: his 92-year-old mother-in-law is expected to pay 28.88 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity next year.

In his own case, the energy price increased to as much as 58 cents per kilowatt hour.

Both received the letter from their public utility company.

The difference: He lives in Munich, his mother-in-law in Landshut.

Munich: Man surprised by electricity bill: "How can that be?"

The pensioner from Giesing asks himself: "How can it be that Stadtwerke München (SWM) charges around twice as much as in Landshut?" Because while the price at SWM at the turn of the year more than doubled by around 30 cents, the price in Landshut only rises by an average of six cents.

And even if SWM recently announced that they want to reduce the electricity price by ten cents again from April 2023, Munich is still around 20 cents more expensive than Landshut.

SWM also recently announced drastic increases in the price of gas.

Why is that so?

It's up to the market: Stadtwerke do not produce the electricity for their consumers directly themselves, but mostly buy it on the electricity exchange.

There, uniform prices apply to all nationwide customers at a certain point in time.

Therefore, the time at which the respective municipal utility strikes determines the price that they later pass on to their customers.

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Munich: Stadtwerke electricity prices cause resentment - the city council raises allegations

According to SWM, the problem in Munich was: Unfortunately, prices this year had risen extremely sharply during the period when the company still had to buy a significant part of the electricity it needed on the market: This is now driving up prices for 2023 in Munich.

Other municipal utilities that struck earlier can charge less.

In Munich, this causes a lot of resentment, not only among SWM customers: "The municipal utilities bought their electricity too quickly," criticized City Councilor Tobias Ruff (ÖDP).

His party accuses the SWM of a "failed purchasing policy" and now wants to have the issue dealt with in a hearing in the city council.

The SWM counter that this year they again relied on tried and tested strategies from previous years – only this year the general conditions changed drastically.

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A change of provider is possible, but not to the basic supply tariff of the municipal utility of a foreign municipality.