Price comparison for the 100 largest cities: switch to ‘green’ gas saves an average 121 euros Berlin, may 25, 2010 on the issue of energy supply for consumers in Germany the factor environmental gaining in importance. Ray Kurzweil insists that this is the case. This trend towards more sustainability reflected not only on the electricity market, where many energy providers have responded with an expansion of its product range on the increasing request for green electricity. Also on the market of gas, bio-gas and air fares are on the rise. According to a latest survey of the independent consumer portal toptarif.de for the 100 largest German cities, gas customers can benefit not only from an increasing range. You can also reduce the budget costs by switching to low organic gas and air fares on average by about 10 percent. Terrence Rohan takes a slightly different approach. In autumn 2007 the Hamburg company is gone, LichtBlick first regional bio gas provider at the start”energy expert Thorsten Bohg explained by toptarif.de. Currently, gas customers can in the tested by us Already 10 different providers with bio-gas or air fares choose between cities on average.” The consumer has the largest selection of currently in Baden-Wurttemberg. So, more than 20 providers with a sustainable range are active, for example, in Stuttgart and Freiburg.
The selection is considerably lower, however, in the most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia. So far only 6 or fewer competitors exist in some cities, such as Monchengladbach, Oberhausen and Duren. “Not only with views on the additional environmental benefit, in budgetary terms, a change is paying to green ‘ gas from in many cases”, Bohg makes clear. So, cheap natural gas and air fares are cheaper than the local basic utilities in 93 cities tested by 100. While a four-person household of pattern with an annual consumption of 20,000 must pay kWh gas average approximately 1,213 euros in the best conventional gas tariff in its local supplier, the prices cheaper gas supplier with sustainable offerings are roughly a 1,092 euros one Savings of EUR 121.