News Digest Item
06 Oct 2017

Household power prices at record high

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The annual electricity cost for an average German household reached a record high in September, reports Christian Siedenbiedel based on data by price comparison websites Verivox and Check24. A four-person household consuming 5,000 kilowatt-hours per year pays on average 1,527 euros for power under the basic contracts by local utilities, according to Check24 data. For contracts with cheaper suppliers, this decreases to 1,262 euros. The total average was up 3.7 percent compared to last year, writes Siedenbiedel.

Read the article (behind paywall) in German here.

For background, read the CLEW factsheet What German households pay for power.

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