If you have a digital meter, you will now pay a final invoice based on your actual consumption. Until now, this was done, as with analogue meters, on the basis of one meter reading and an average per month.
An advance payment every month, providing a meter reading once a year and then an invoice based on your consumption: this is what it is like for those who have an analogue meter for electricity and gas. But also for those who have a digital meter. Your consumption may be registered per day or even per quarter of an hour, but theoretical calculations were still used.
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If you have a variable contract, the final amount does not always reflect reality. Suppose you were very economical with heating during a month when gas was very expensive, or you were on holiday. Then your annual consumption was divided proportionally over the months, based on the standard profiles. Pensioners who spend the winter in the south still pay part of their gas consumption at the often more expensive winter prices.
Fluvius was fined by energy watchdog VREG in 2023 and did not meet the promised times for improvement, but has now announced that it will come up with a solution from July. From then on, suppliers will even be obliged to use actual monthly consumption.
From July, suppliers will be obliged to use real monthly consumption
For customers who opt for monthly billing, the problem was already solved. But then you pay considerably more in the winter, instead of spreading your heating costs over advances that are evenly spread over the entire year. This will now also be possible for annual invoicing, although payment will still be made via advances.
Nothing will change for customers with a classic analog meter or with a dynamic contract or monthly invoicing. Anyone who has a fixed energy contract also pays the same amount. By using real monthly volumes, “customers can make more targeted savings or spread their consumption better,” says Fluvius.
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