Belgium: Homes face massive electricity hikes
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Belgium’s consumer association has urged the government to extend Covid relief for household energy bills beyond the deadline set in spring.

"2500 euros is what it costs an average family in October 2021 to heat with natural gas for a year. That is an increase of more than 43%", the associations said.

"With approximately 1250 euros per year for electricity, we are in the process of overtaking Germany by becoming the European country where energy is the most expensive."

Ministers across the federal country’s authorities are currently arguing over how to ease the burden for millions of people facing huge electricity and gas hikes.

The country’s energy regulator is due to report shortly about whether suppliers are ramping up “windfall profits”. Test Achats, the Belgian equivalent of Which? in the UK, said that families face a potential six-fold leap in bills unless Covid-related help is extended from April.

“Today, some 900,000 homes benefit from this relief,” the consumer rights champion said on its website. “If nothing is done… lots of households will be plunged into energy precarity,” it added.



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