2,200 electricity and 1,000 gas customers from East Hesse are shocked: the low-cost provider they switched to threw them out because purchasing energy became too expensive for them.
Fulda – Up to now, supplier hopping was without risk for customers: if a low-cost provider went bankrupt, the advance payment was gone, but the basic supplier – in East Hesse RhönEnergie Fulda * – had to be ready and include the customer in his basic tariff. The regional suppliers are now shaking up this principle. Because some energy discounters have gambled: Stromio and Gas.de have built on the fact that they can buy energy cheaply in the short term. When that failed, the electricity and gas customers were terminated.
fuldaerzeitung.de reveals which new tariff RhönEnergie, but also other providers in Germany, are now offering.*
RhönEnergie, on the other hand, has bought electricity and gas cheaply for its existing customers over the long term. But for customers who are coming now, she would have to buy the energy expensively in the short term. “If we were to supply the 2,200 electricity and 1,000 gas customers that we have to add to the price that existing customers pay, we would add four million euros in a year,” explains Martin Heun, Managing Director of RhönEnergie. *fuldaerzeitung.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
