Despite price brakes, energy costs are rising dramatically

Dusseldorf The price brakes planned at the beginning of the year will at best mitigate the dramatically increased costs for electricity and gas somewhat. Although the federal government will cap energy prices in the future, electricity customers will pay an average of 44 percent more in January than in autumn 2021, when the energy markets started to rally. With gas it is even 112 percent more.

This emerges from an evaluation of the comparison portal Verivox, which is exclusively available to the Handelsblatt. According to this, a representative family with a power consumption of 4000 kilowatt hours (KWh) per year must plan with a bill of 1764 euros from January. Without the price brake, it would only be 56 euros more. The state intervention thus only limits the price increase by five percentage points.