Electricity tariffs: Customers start cost-consciously in the new year

(openPR) - Berlin, 13 February 2007. The German consumers are obviously price-consciously started in the new year. In view of of value added tax increase and risen prices a tendency becomes recognizable saving with the consumers: Favorable current offerers registered for example in January a particularly strong inlet.

Thus the Prepaid offerer FlexStrom record numbers in the new customer business reports: Approximately 8,000 current customers decided in January for the country widely acting enterprise. „Ever more humans conscious, like much it with the change of the current offerer save “, avowedly FlexStrom managing director Robert Mundt.

The more consumer for alternative offerers, becomes the larger also the pressure decides on the current companies, which have substantial portion of the height of the electricity tariffs. More than four fifth of German current production comes from E.ON, RWE, EnBW and Vattenfall. A fair price formation at the Leipziger current stock exchange EEX cannot function under these conditions. Also the fees for the use of electricity mains are called in industry circles superelevated.

On that so far only a small portion of the consumers decided 1998 liberalisierten current market for a new offerer. With increasing cost consciousness this situation changes however: „The competition comes slowly however surely in full swing “, says Mundt. „And uses above all the consumers. “Only in the middle of January had resulted in an independent price comparison that through an offerer change up to 30% of cost of electricity can be saved.

In Berlin resident enterprises FlexStrom already in the past year high growth rates obtained. Before the turn of the year the current offerer had only briefly reached the mark of 100,000 customers. The enterprise, which sells particularly over Internet, still offers customers to at the end of February an on-line discount of 10% on all tariff packages.

For further inquiries:
Pressestelle of the FlexStrom GmbH
Dirk Hempel
A road 22-24
10785 Berlin

Telephone: 030/21 49 98 -470
Fax: 030/21 49 98 -633
E-Mail: presse@FlexStrom.de
Internet: www.FlexStrom.de

The 2003 created FlexStrom GmbH is an enterprise of the United network Industries AG, the first German multi-utility offerer. More than 100,000 customers already decided country widely for the favorable energy offerer. FlexStrom drives river out in the cost-saving Prepaid procedure and 2005 for its tariff structure with the European restaurant price was distinguished. The 12monatige price guarantee on all FlexStrom Tarifpakete for private customers examined the TÜV Thuringia and certified. One in January 2007 provided overview of the comparison portal verivox designates FlexStrom as the most favorable alternative for 813 that country widely 821 area servicers.

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