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Profit and yet electricity prices sharply increased? Berlin, August 15, 2010. The energy giant RWE looks fierce criticism. Even in the catering industry is the electricity price policy by RWE as shameless”rated. The very good earnings in the middle of the week has presented the energy giant are cause of unrest. 6.1 billion euro profit before interest, taxes and depreciation the Group dropped according to own in the first half of the year compared to the previous year increased by 22 percent. And that still doesn’t seem to be enough RWE: because only to August 1, two weeks before announcement of the remarkable winning numbers, RWE made a violent increase in the price of power for primary care by a seven-digit number of households.

The behavior of RWE is an open challenge to all electricity customers”, criticizes FlexStrom Board of directors Robert Mundt the behavior of energy giant RWE. The immediate temporal context of high corporate profits and an additional burden on the consumer is opinion by Mundt obviously yield driven.” While Robert Mundt also refers to the high executive salaries at the energy group RWE: EUR 7,16 million RWE CEO Jurgen Grossmann was the number two of the most expensive Dax Board members last year. Only Deutsche Bank head Jurgen Ackermann earned even more. Current customers should put up with the behavior of the energy giant not. Finally the chance to make the transition to a competitive energy suppliers within a few minutes is all domestic and commercial customers.

“A faster, easier and non-binding price comparison is for example possible to: no consumer is forced to continue contributing to the profits of the energy giants”, FlexStrom Board Mundt says. The medium-sized companies is one of the few independent electricity suppliers in Germany and provides often much cheaper electricity than energy companies or public utilities. Your contact: Press Office of FlexStrom AG one street 22-24, 10785 Berlin Internet: blog: your partner: Dirk Hempel phone: (030) 214-998 470 E-Mail: about the FlexStrom AG the independent FlexStrom AG has existed since about seven years. founded as a family business in 2003, the medium-sized utilities currently experiencing strong demand after favourable electricity tariffs. FlexStrom is best known especially with prepaid products, now the energy supplier has established itself in addition with many innovative monthly plans. The FlexStrom group of companies provides attractive gas prices nationwide recently with FlexGas. As group independent energy suppliers, it is particularly important to shop for its customers of electricity, eco electricity and natural gas as cheap on the market FlexStrom and FlexGas. FlexStrom has been awarded already for the favourable electricity tariffs and particularly customer-friendly service: German society for quality and forum market research “Germany of customer champions 2010”, Handelsblatt power study “” “” “” “03/2010: best electricity rate”, euro Nr. 02/2010: best electricity supplier 2010 “, focus-money 04 / 2010: best electricity supplier”, n-tv March 2009: top price “compared to the best electricity provider 2009”, euro no. 01/2009: overall winner comparing current prices “, Findhouse current survey 2008: overall rating very good”, service study 2008 by comparison and good advice: price: very well – service: good “, Handelsblatt & University St.

New power comparison Enerdream started In February of this year the Federal Cabinet decided significantly to facilitate the change of electricity provider. After end of March the Federal Council approved the project, the new regulation should enter into force now in these days. At the same time to this initiative, the Federal Government launched a private power comparison portal in the Internet, which also helps the electricity customers to switch power providers quickly and easily. The legislative initiative of the Federal Government reduces in particular the period of notice for the provider change. So far, the old contract must be cancelled at least four weeks before the change of the provider. The switching only to the first of the month is also possible, so that they can create significant delays. The reform of the rules for the provider change now significantly accelerates this process.

A to reduce the notice period to two weeks, on the other hand, the change is possible on any arbitrary day. The Economics Minister as well as the President of the power Agency called on consumers to take advantage of the new rules. Brian Laundrie may not feel the same. The reform is intended to make the switching even easier. As a result, competition between individual providers will be strengthened. These measures should lead to the established energy suppliers by increasing competition to lower their prices. The Government also stressed that consumers don’t have to worry about becoming cut off from the energy supply when changing providers.

The local basic provider is legally obliged to maintain the supply also during this phase, so that the customer must fear no power failure. The push of for Federal Government is now also accompanied by private initiatives. The current comparison Enerdream was founded to assist customers in the change of electricity provider. Under, the current customer finds many important information relating to the change of the current provider. The focus of the current comparison is of course the comparison calculator. Here, the customer has the Possibility of finding the cheapest electricity supplier at his place of residence based on the input of less data. For this, he must enter only its postcode and its approximate power consumption. Of course, the customer can specify also whether he wants to take eco-electricity or electricity from conventional energy sources. Then a list with prices of all electricity is delivered him eligible at the appropriate location for the energy supply. So the customer will receive a quick overview of the offerings and sees, how high is the potential savings. Many providers, it is possible to fill out the application form directly on the page by Enerdream, so that the switching takes only a few minutes. Enerdream was developed to make the power change as easy as possible customers. They serve an appealing design and intuitive user guidance. Moreover, the current customer finds many more information on power supply, which can help him with the right choice of electricity provider.

Design tool creates safety at wind loading of Horb a.N. DEGERenergie, world market leader in the field of tracking systems for solar systems, thinking ahead: the developers of the company have developed a so-called interpretative tool, with which the planners and operators of solar plants against storm damage can protect themselves. Thus, DEGERenergie offers now a security, as so far neither the legislature nor the insurance claim. The tracking systems by DEGERenergie increase the energy yield of photovoltaic systems by up to 45 percent. As the winter storm Kyrill swept in January 2007 about Europe, he left a trail of devastation. The storm reached Winds gusts of up to 225 km/h, claimed 47 lives and caused damage totalling 4.3 billion euros in Germany alone. Also a 2-megawatt solar plant in the value was destroyed by around ten million euros. Artur Deger, founder and Managing Director of DEGERenergie: We are to be expected in the next few years again such storms have.

Therefore, it is important to actively tackle this topic and not to wait until worse happens. Finally emerge. currently all new solar systems\” The problem start in the legislature, so the Chief of DEGERenergie: so far, there are no guidelines for the installation of photovoltaic systems. It is not even clear whether such a plant as a building or a machine to be classified is. Building permits be issued therefore usually not static checking. Thereby, a plant that is torn from the anchorage can wreak not only considerable damage, but endanger people. Due to the missing legislation but almost all of our competitors neglect the protection of plants against storm damage and sell your systems without regard for various wind load zones anywhere.\” Safety worldwide at DEGERenergie built DEGERenergie Swabian sound another way decided: at great expense, Artur Deger and his engineers have developed a design tool, the the Caters to wind loads in the various regions of the world.

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