According to the long-distance gas network operator, twelve companies have registered their claim to money from the gas levy planned from October. This emerges from a list by Trading Hub Europe (THE), the association of operators. The RWE trading subsidiary Supply
The eleven other companies are the gas traders Uniper, VNG, EWE, Sefe (formerly Gazprom Germania) and their subsidiary Wingas, OMV, Axpo, Vitol and Gunvor, the Swiss commodity trading companies DXT Commodities and Enet Energy. The “Handelsblatt” reported first.
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RWE’s spokeswoman told AFP the company was “formally listed”. This is a “pure precautionary measure” if “things change”. According to current plans, the gas surcharge of 2.4 cents will be levied until the end of March 2024.
The gas surcharge is intended to relieve companies that have to buy gas elsewhere for a lot of money to fulfill their contracts because of the reduced deliveries from Russia. They are currently not allowed to pass on their additional costs, the levy should compensate for 90 percent of these costs from October. This is intended to prevent company bankruptcies and ultimately delivery failures.
When asked by the “Handelsblatt”, the Swiss energy trader Axpo stated that it was only affected to a minor extent. Nevertheless, the company must “currently procure the energy that is not supplied at much higher costs” in order to be able to comply with the existing contracts with customers in Germany, said a spokesman for the newspaper.
