Consumers threatens higher electricity price – economy wants relief
Consumers in germany are threatening to increase their electricity costs in the coming year. The nationwide average price for a kilowatt-hour was able to swell by 7 percent to 32.2 cents if the expected increase in okostromufage is not prevented, the comparison portal verivox has calculated. A three-person household with an annual consumption of 4000 kilowatt hours must count on additional costs of 88 euros in this case.
After a forecast of the denkfabrik agora energiewende, the surcharge for the expansion of renewable energies 2021, mainly due to the significantly lower electricity price on the borse and the burglary of electricity demand by the corona crisis from now 6.8 cents per kilowatt hour on a record high of approximately 8.6 cents rise. The energy supplier EON and IG mining, chemistry and energy (IG BCE) also expect a similar increase, if not counteracted.
Relief by billion-heavy economic stimulus package
Business associations demanded the federal government to act. "If the electricity prices continue to rise, this could be a heavy brake in the way out of the crisis", said deputy general managing director of the industrial association BDI, holger losch, the german press agency. The main manager of the energy association BDEW, kerstin andreae, said the DPA, it is the highest time to act to avoid a drastic increase in electricity prices.
Reliefs in electricity prices could also be part of a billion-heavy economic power packages, which the tips of the black-red coalition want to decide to pentecost. The federal government has so far planned in the course of its climate protection program, the EEG surcharge of 2021 in gradually reducing by around 1.5 cents per kilowatt hour – in turn to stress in refueling and heating. From 2021 to starts in traffic and building a CO2 pricing.
Deletion of the EEG surcharge
But also in this case, consumers could not hope for a falling electricity price. After verivox calculations, this was still at a quintual additional burden of the three-person budget of 17 euros.
IG-BCE chief michael vassiliadis calls to query the EEG surcharge as part of the corona business package and to finance the costs of the energy transition on the federal budget. "Never was the necessary one today", said vassiliadis the dpa. The deletion of the surcharge "had a much more social effect than about a tax relief".
EEG account leer – 500 million credit for network operators
With revenues from the transfer, the difference between the electricity price determined on the borse and the guaranteed payments to the okostrom producers is balanced. Because of the significantly lower boric prices, this lucky last has become considerably gross.
The EEG account to which payments of electricity customers and revenues from the sale of the okostrom at the borse has reluctantly emptied. The transfer network operator amprion, which manages the account together with the three other network operators, therefore had to secure a loan of 500 million euros in order to make payments.
