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Electricity or gas contract: until when can you cancel?

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Goes in

  • Start and term
  • Notice period and renewal
  • Price change, if announced

Comes out

  1. Last day to give notice and end date
  2. What the law really allows
  3. Termination letter and calendar entry

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Contract deadlines

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02What applies

Three rules that override many contracts.

Whether a deadline counts depends on the contract and the date it was signed.

  1. Households, since 1 March 2022At most 24 months initial term. After that no tacit renewal by a year: the contract runs on indefinitely and can be cancelled at any time with at most one month's notice (§ 309 no. 9 BGB).
  2. Price increaseEvery one-sided price change gives a right to terminate without notice to the day the new price applies. Households must be told at least one month ahead, other customers two weeks (§ 41 (5) EnWG). Exception: a pure pass-through of a VAT change.
  3. Basic supplyCan be cancelled at any time with two weeks' notice (§ 20 StromGVV and GasGVV). Price changes only at the start of a month and six weeks ahead (§ 5).

03More energy checks

Four checks for electricity and gas.

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04For energy brokers, energy consultants, property managers

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05Sources

Where the values come from.

  1. German Civil Code § 309Term, tacit renewal, notice period (number 9)
  2. Energy Industry Act § 41Price change, notice, special termination (paragraphs 5 and 6)
  3. Energy Industry Act § 41bText form, confirmation within a week
  4. Basic Electricity Supply Ordinance § 5 and § 20Cancelling basic supply, price change (same in GasGVV)