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Electricity grid costs will increase next year
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Grid rates for electricity and gas will be more expensive in 2021, but not everywhere. In the case of electricity, grid costs increase by about 4.1 percent on average for industry, households and commerce. For an average home with an annual consumption of 3,500 kWh, the increase in network costs is somewhat higher than 4.4 percent and amounts to about ten euros per year, calculates today the regulatory authority E-Control.
However, regionally different changes would appear. According to the authority, these can be essentially attributed to differentiated investment activities by the network operators for the renewal of the existing gas pipeline network and investments for new tasks such as smart metering, as well as lower growth in the quantities sold. The rates for loss of network are reduced in all areas of the network due to lower energy prices in electricity exchanges and, therefore, cushion the cost increase of the network use rate, explains the E-Control board member Andreas Eigenbauer.
Only in the Klagenfurt and Linz network areas will there be small reductions in electricity network tariffs. Taking into account all the effects in the Graz and Burgenland network areas, the increase is stronger at € 21.04 and € 20.24 per year for an average household with a consumption of 3,500 kWh.
Gas network charges will increase on January 1, 2021 for an average gas-heated home in eastern Austria and Carinthia, while they will decrease in the remaining federal states. Depending on the federal state, network charges represent between a quarter and a third of the total gas bill, the rest is explained by gas delivery costs, as well as taxes and duties. “For an average gas-fired home with an annual consumption of 15,000 kilowatt hours, grid rates increase by two percent or six euros on average in Austria,” calculates co-director Wolfgang Urbantschitsch.
The reason for the increase in tariffs in eastern Austria is the increase in network costs. In Vienna, network rates for a gas-heated home will increase by 5.8 percent, in Carinthia by 6.8 percent, in Lower Austria by 6.4 percent and in Burgenland by 1 , 9 percent.
In the federal states of Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Salzburg, Upper Austria, Salzburg and Styria, on the other hand, gas network rates are falling because gas sales are constantly high and network costs have neither increased nor decreased. , according to E-Control. For an average home in Tyrol that heats with gas, network rates will be reduced by 3.3 percent from next year, in Vorarlberg by 3.9 percent, in Salzburg by 3 percent, in Upper Austria by 4.3 per cent and in Styria by 0.6 per cent. On average, in Austria, the reduction in network charges for a larger sample customer with a purchase of 90 gigawatt hours of power is around 0.2 percent compared to 2020.
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