Ich bin nun seit etwa einem Jahr in Deutschland, muss jedoch zum ersten Mal einen eigenen Stromvertrag abschließen.
Kann mir jemand erklären, wie folgender Tarif funktioniert bzw. ob es sich um einen guten Vertrag handelt? Wie viel ich beispielsweise im Monat zahle und was verbrauchsabhängig und was als Grundzahlung gezahlt wird?
Zusatzinfo: Ich und eine weitere Person wohnen in der Wohnung mit normalem Stromverbrauch, außer vielleicht zwei PCs zum Lernen und Spielen.
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Von Maronator
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Have you tried to translate the terms?
Your contract offers depend on where you are, how much you think you’ll use (you say you’ll use 2500kWh in a year here), and whether or not you care about things like funding renewable energy sources.
Here you’ll be paying 87 a month. You will receive ~300eur for signing up, probably as credit but possibly as cash in your bank account, depending on how precisely the bonus works.
How long the minimum contract period here is is not listed in your screenshot.
At the beginning of each year you receive a final bill – if you’ve used more electricity than you’ve estimated you’ll be charged more and if you use less you’ll get a refund, and the company will change how much you pay per month accordingly for the next payment period.
Basic Payment = Grundpreis (163€)
Paying per month = geschätzter Abschlag (87€)
consumption based = Arbeitspreis gesamt (878€)
There’s some discount (“Bonus”, ~300€), so if you use 2500 kWh, you will get money back at the end of the year.
Energy Costs are calculated using Arbeitspreis (Working Price per kWh) and Grundpreis/Bereitstellungspreis (Base Price).
Grundpreis is what you pay “to be customer” and be delivered with energy.
Arbeitspreis is what you pay per consumed kWh.
Then, there in the offer are a few discounts listed to obfuscate the actual costs but what matters is the Cost per kWh and what you pay as base price.
A normal price is like 13-15€/Month Base price and 33-36 Cents/kWh.
Take a look at different offers and companies. (NO AD HERE) For example “Green Planet Energy” – a former subsidiary of Green Peace that has really low prices and if you consider buying internal company shares you are granted with price stability and less costs (around 12,9€ Base Price and 33,9 cents). For me this works cheap
As a former eprimo customer I tell stay the hell away from this shitty company.
Customer service is absolutely bonkers with them.
Whenever they have to do something for you it takes ages and multiple hour long calls.
Then once your contract is out of the fixed price window they will constantly make shit up to raise the price.
You pay the monthly fixed fee (usually 5-20€) and a monthly rate based on the expected consumption in kwh x the price per kwh. Once a year people will come around to read your meter (or you do it yourself), and the energy provider will give you a refund or ask you to pay the difference based on your actual consumption.
I don’t know if this is a good contract, it depends on your consumption of electricity, your area and if you remember to change the provider in 2 years. You generally can get large welcome boni, but staying with them is usually more expensive than picking another company.
Some providers offer a guaranteed price, that is a bit more expensive than the regular price, but guards you against rising costs.
The only thing you never should do is enter into a prepay contract. There are scummy companies that offer cheap rates, if you pre-pay for the year, but as soon as prices go up unexpectedly, they go belly up and leave you with the local energy company as supplier of last resort, which is usually the most expensive option and the money you paid is gone.
There are three main constituent groups of pricing.
The first is for the grid operator, which is the Netznutzungsentgelt (NNE) (I.e. network costs). Most electricity providers pass those through directly to the customer. Each region has a Grundversorger that is usually also the operator of the grid in that area and the prices for NNE vary regionally. The electricity company usually show these for completeness but you can ignore them for price comparison since regardless of which provider you go with they will remain the same.
The second is the taxes and fees (Konzession und Abgaben). These are fixed regardless of which provider you choose.
The last is the part from the provider themselves. This is what you can price compare on.
This is normally split into two, Arbeitspreis and Grundpreis. The Grundpreis is the base flat fee for delivering the electricity. The Arbeitspreis is the cost of the electricity per kw/h normally in cents. If you have a NT / HT variant (two counters), for off-peak / peak (Hochtariff / Nachttariff) those might be split on Arbeitspreis. That’s for standard SLP meters that you’ll find in most homes. SLP stands for Standard Lastprofil. It’s the kind of meter that is read yearly.
If you are a business, you might have an RLM if your consumption pushes into that regulatory requirement. In which case there will be another price for “Leistung” called the “Leistungspreis”. In this case the RLM meter sends usage data back to the grid operator every fifteen minutes and they forward that data to the provider. They should make that available to you to download. Usually as a CSV.
Many providers offer a bonus to sign with them. You can often get these via compare portals such as check24 or Preisvergleich, but sometimes from the providers directly.
It looks like you are interested in green energy. Be careful because not all green energy is the same. Most operators are selling “grey” green energy. It isn’t produced by the energy company using their own renewable energy assets but bought in the form of energy certificates on the EEX market. Some of those might be nuclear from France or hydro from Scandinavia. This probably isn’t your intention to buy such energy since you’ve highlighted buying a “ecostrom” contract in your screenshot.
There are only two green energy companies that really offer 100% true green energy in Germany. Those are Naturstrom and Lichtblick.
The rest just badge ecostrom as such and legislation is being prepared to make that more transparent to the customer, since currently certain providers are misleading with their sourcing and subsequent marketing.