“What is interesting is that the Gen-I energy company, which is supposedly still being controlled by the President of the Freedom Movement party, Robert Golob, through his people there, announced the price increase only now, in the post-election period,” the web portal Moje Posavje wrote in regard to the announced increase in the price of gas provided by the Gen-I company. According to the new regular price list, the price of natural gas per kilowatt-hour without VAT will be 0.04990 euros, and with the 22 % VAT, that price increases to 0.06088 euros per kilowatt-hour. The cheapest provider at the moment remains the company Petrol, which has set its regular price at 0.051179 euros per kilowatt-hour.
President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has announced an embargo on Russian oil imports, and meanwhile, fuel prices are skyrocketing. And now that the elections are over, the prices of natural gas are also rising at the Gen-I energy company. “What is interesting is that the Gen-I energy company, which is supposedly still being controlled by the President of the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda), Robert Golob, through his people there, announced the price increase only now, in the post-election period,” wrote the web portal Moje Posavje.
The Gen-I company announced on its website on Friday that the new regular price list for the supply of natural gas to households and small business customers will come into force on the 1st of July, the web portal 24ur reports. And according to the new regular price list, the price for the supply of natural gas will now amount to 0.04990 euros without value added tax, and 0.06088 euros per kilowatt-hour with the 22% VAT. This price has already been in place for the new users since the 25th of February, while the company has provided unchanged prices for the existing users until the summer of 2022, as already mentioned.
Gen-I also said that they are keeping a close eye on the situation in Europe and the world, which affects the prices of energy they buy for the consumers. Prices are expected to reach their highest, even historically high amounts, in the second half of 2022. Obviously, the war in Ukraine will cost Europe dearly, as the rising in energy prices is not slowing down. “It was predicted that the situation would calm down after the winter months, but the unforeseen war in Ukraine has aggravated the situation again. That is why we also have to adapt to changes in the buying markets and harmonise our prices with them,” they explained.
An almost 100 percent increase in the price of natural gas
Gas will thus be almost 85 percent more expensive, and this item, as the Finance newspaper wrote in early March, represents about 40 percent of the final price. The latter will increase by about a third. Other Slovenian suppliers of natural gas to households and small business customers have already raised their prices. The company Istrabenz Plini and the company Plinarna Maribor, which has some ownership in the former, have already increased the prices for existing customers from 0.07564 to 0.09498 euros per kilowatt-hour, including value added tax, while the prices for new customers who signed contracts after the 17th of December last year will exceed the amount of 0.12 euros with VAT. The energy company Energetika Ljubljana has also announced an additional price increase for the 15th of May – namely, the price will increase from 0.04850 to 0.07275 euros per kilowatt-hour with VAT.
The company Petrol, which initially announced a new price increase for the 1st of April but then postponed the price change to the beginning of May, set the new regular price at 0.051179, while previously it was 0.03752 euros per kilowatt-hour, including VAT. However, some have obviously decided to not sell at such high prices, for example, the E.ON Ljubljana company, which has about 28,000 electricity customers and 1,000 natural gas customers. The latter have already informed their customers that they will gradually stop supplying electricity and natural gas in the coming months, as the price has risen from 0.073139 to 0.182939 euros per kilowatt-hour, including VAT. Thus, natural gases are about to face a tough winter in the next heating season, and the residents of apartment buildings that depend on central heating will suffer the most.
Sara Kovač
