Letter to the Editor – Truck doubles the price of electricity and is silent
On January 1, 2023, the cost of electrical energy will double in one fell swoop. The price for one kWh of electricity, including network costs, increases from 19.2 cents/kWh to 37.7 cents/kWh, also by 96.35%. In Switzerland, the electricity price averages 26.95 centimes per kilowatt hour. In Liechtenstein, you pay 10.75 centimes more per kWh than the Swiss average.
According to Vaterland, LKW had to pay back 6 million Swiss francs to several major customers this year because they charged electricity prices that were too high. This is to be announced accordingly on the business results. The suspicion is close that this fact has a direct connection with the exorbitantly large price development.
Elias Quaderer (VL) wonders why neither the government nor a member of parliament has commented on the events. The secretary general of the economics minister confirms the facts, but points out that communication is a matter for LKW. To this end, LKW remains silent and is covered by government councilor Monauni. The government has given the state parliament a muzzle. You’ll just sit it out like always!
While LKW has made hefty profits every year and is sitting on an impressive equity capital of CHF 328 million, households and companies based in the country are now supposed to pay a massively higher electricity price than Swiss customers. In this regard, the government sets the benchmark as it sees fit and adopts LKW’s arguments. We are no longer measuring ourselves against the cheapest electricity providers in Switzerland, but against the most expensive ones, and those who have managed even worse are shown. You just want to put yourself in a better light.
The DpL has already proposed that LKW waive the grid fee for a year in order to keep the electricity price at a reasonable level of around 30 centimes per kWh. In view of the reserves of the trucks not really a problem and very manageable. In addition, private households should not have to bleed for the mistake of the truck driver.
Thomas Rehak, Member of Parliament