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Electricity prices in the Weilheim-Schongau district: caviar from the socket

2023-01-10T07:19:50.234Z


Electricity prices in the Weilheim-Schongau district: caviar from the socket Created: 01/10/2023, 08:00 By: Christoph Peters, Sebastian Tauchnitz, Kathrin Hauser, Johannes Thoma, Elke Robert For some municipalities in the district, the price of electricity will rise by more than 900 percent this year. Weilheim and the district secured low electricity prices in the long term © WERNECKE/DPA Anyo


Electricity prices in the Weilheim-Schongau district: caviar from the socket

Created: 01/10/2023, 08:00

By: Christoph Peters, Sebastian Tauchnitz, Kathrin Hauser, Johannes Thoma, Elke Robert

For some municipalities in the district, the price of electricity will rise by more than 900 percent this year.

Weilheim and the district secured low electricity prices in the long term © WERNECKE/DPA

Anyone who has to renegotiate their electricity contract these days can tell you a thing or two about it: prices are going through the roof.

The development also makes no detour around the district and its communities.

District – For many years, the matter was clear: If many small communities get together and tender their electricity supplies together due to the significantly larger volume, then things will be much cheaper.

That's why the electricity bundle tender of the Bavarian community day was very popular.

At least until last year.

Municipality of Bernried had "luck in disguise"

Because the bundled tender yielded results that were sometimes ten times the previous price – and thus significantly higher than the basic supplier tariff.

The communities for which there was no offer at all were lucky.

For better or for worse, the others had to accept the prices offered.

And now, like the Swabian community of Sielenbach, are trying to get the money back from the community day through the courts.

Bernried was once again lucky in misfortune and came away empty-handed in the bundle tender last year.

In October, the municipality was suddenly without an electricity supplier for 2023, but as a co-shareholder of the regional energy supplier "17er Oberlandenergie" it was quickly able to organize a halfway affordable replacement.

Bernried is by no means the only municipality that has found accommodation there after failing to participate in the bundled tender.

Also new from the district are Seeshaupt, Iffeldorf, Pähl, Wielenbach and the Habach administrative community, according to Managing Director Thomas Feistl on request.

(The local newspapers in the Weilheim-Schongau district are represented on Instagram under “merkur_wm_sog”.)

Peiting has to dig much deeper into his pocket

Things are looking worse for Peiting: the market community will have to dig much deeper into their pockets for electricity in the next few years than before.

The Peiting store took part in the bundled tender for the period from 2020 to 2022 and for the future period from 2023 to 2025.

According to finance department employee Simone Weber, electricity supply contracts were concluded with two providers in October 2022.

Compared to the last three years, the labor price has increased by over 900 percent.

"Looking into the future is hypothetical, since many measures are still open that may also affect us," says Weber.

"However, we are currently assuming that the costs for electrical energy will increase approximately sixfold." While expenditure on electricity in 2021 was still a total of 270,000 euros, in 2023 the municipality will have to spend well over a million euros.

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Hohenpeissenberg's contract runs until the end of the year

The municipality of Hohenpeissenberg is completely undaunted: They will take part in the bundle tender.

That has already been decided, said Mayor Thomas Dorsch when asked.

The current contract runs until the end of 2023. The municipality currently pays 45 cents per kilowatt hour, according to the mayor.

When the electricity price cap takes effect, it will still be 40 cents.

The next call for tenders will then apply for the years 2024 and 2025.

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Schongau is stuck in the bundle tender trap

Schongau is also stuck in the bundle tendering trap: "The prices are significantly higher than we had to pay before," summarizes city master builder Sebastian Dietrich for Schongau.

However, in the case of the bundle tender in cooperation with the municipal council, an economical offer for the years 2023 to 2025 was only received in the area of ​​street lighting.

Instead of around 15 cents per kilowatt hour, just under 70 cents per kWh will be due in the energy work price in 2023, and this will drop to just under 40 cents by 2025.

"That's about four times the price as before," says Dietrich.

Because there were no economic offers in the tender for the electricity supply for customers up to 100,000 kWh or larger consumers, a new, smaller award procedure was started.

In the coming year, the price will now be negotiated on the electricity spot market.

"The prices are only set afterwards or parallel to consumption, we hope and expect that it will be cheaper than fixed prices," says Dietrich.

A new tender must be published in autumn 2023.

Weilheim and the district can lay back and relax

Meanwhile, the city of Weilheim and the district can sit back and relax.

They signed a long-term contract with fixed prices together and in good time.

Two lots were tendered before the energy crisis, reports District Treasurer Norbert Merk.

It was bought regionally and ecologically - a green electricity share of 100 percent was required.

Stadtwerke Weilheim and 17er Oberlandenergie were awarded the contract with prices of 6.95 and 7.16 cents per kilowatt hour, respectively.

The contract runs until New Year's Eve 2024.

And then, according to Merk's hope, the situation will hopefully have stabilized again and prices will fall.

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Source: merkur

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