After the bankruptcy of the Flemish energy supplier, the approximately 70,000 customers end up with grid manager Fluvius. As an ’emergency supplier’, it will supply electricity and natural gas. But that happens at very high rates.
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No, the lights and heating have not gone out for the more than 70,000 customers after the bankruptcy of the Flemish energy supplier. Fluvius, the operator of the Belgian electricity network, acts immediately as an emergency supplier. This is stipulated in Flemish legislation. However, this ‘rescue operation’ does come with a price: the Fluvius ’emergency supplier’ rate is often half to three quarters more expensive on an annual basis than that of the cheapest players on the market.
‘Not illogical, we now have to buy everything ourselves on the wholesale market. And we all know how expensive they are these days. We therefore advise the victims to conclude a contract with a commercial supplier as soon as possible,” said spokesman Björn Verdoodt. Test Aankoop even advises to ask that the contract start on the day of the verdict: ‘Good comparisons remain the message, even in these times of high energy prices: you can save an average of 79 euros per year for electricity in December, for gas. that’s about 139 euros per year by choosing the most advantageous rate plan.’
But that does not end the matter for the victims, because it is by no means certain whether they will see money back if their consumption was lower than foreseen in the advance, while conversely they will have to charge if they had used more than their advances covered. . Even customers who, a few months ago, said goodbye to the Flemish Energy Supplier when it unilaterally withdrew its advances and who, according to their final statement, should receive money back, have no security whatsoever: in the event of bankruptcy, they always end up at the bottom of the line of creditors.
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