Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Electricity price increases:These power providers to increase the rates in May

In May some power providers will ask strongly to the checkout. Particularly affected are customers of E. ON, but also smaller players turn sharply to the price spiral. With an increase worth the supplier or tariff change - easy and free!

Once in the past few months, prices for electricity have already risen sharply in May to attract more providers. In the large group E. ON for more than two million customers are affected - in nine rates with a maximum increase of 6.6 percent.

The most expensive proposal to increase almost ten percent Beech - collected by the municipal utilities Oberkirch for the tariff "benefit stream ". Households with an annual consumption of 4,000 kilowatt hours threaten additional 91 $ per year.

COMPUTER BILD has researched the exact price increases together with the independent consumer portal CHECK24. The following overview shows which providers are now more expensive.

Consumers are now required

From a consumer perspective, there are on this latest increase in electricity costs is only one correct response: You can compare the services offered in your area for free electricity tariffs and to change for you lowest bidder. To promote competition in the electricity market and keep prices stable. A change of electricity provider saves at best several hundred euros a year - for the same performance.

No fear-party exchange

Since 1998, every German household can choose their electricity supplier freely, but only a few Germans make use of this option. Many current customers are afraid that a supplier's switch to power outages or other inconvenience out - this is a tariff change easily and without risk.

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