EEG levy – Starting tomorrow, electricity will cost less: That’s why you should read the electricity meter today

Starting tomorrow, July 1, 2022, you will save 4.43 cents per kilowatt hour, since the EEG surcharge will no longer apply and energy suppliers are also obliged to pass this amount on to consumers. In addition, the companies cannot simply increase the price on the same date.

Important here: The electricity price does not drop immediately, but is only compensated with the next annual bill. It can therefore make sense to record the meter reading again on June 30, 2022. We explain for whom this is most worthwhile.

Heating electricity and household electricity: the difference

There is an important distinction between household electricity and heating electricity that you should know:

• household electricity distributed evenly over the year, since devices such as refrigerators, televisions or stoves are used about as often in winter as in summer.
• heating current distributed unevenly, since this is hardly needed or not at all in summer and is very dependent on the weather.

It is therefore more worthwhile for consumers with heating electricity to report the meter reading as of June 30, 2022 to the electricity supplier. Otherwise the estimate could deviate too much from the actual value.

However, reading and reporting the meter reading cannot do any harm for tenants either, especially if you have adjusted your consumption habits in view of the increased prices and are living more economically. Here, too, there is a risk that the estimation and the reading are too far apart.

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