What is general electricity?

General electricity supplies the infrastructure

• The general power in a house is electrical current, which supplies the infrastructure of the house, which is used jointly. The home owner or the management of the house concludes a contract with the electricity supplier for the general electricity.

• The electricity that you use in your home is not general electricity. Everything that you pull out of the socket directly in your own four walls ends up on the electricity meter in your apartment and you will be billed accordingly. The electricity supplier with whom you have a contract may be different from the one who supplies the general electricity. This electricity is called household electricity.

The sharing of the communal electricity

• General electricity includes electricity that is used for: light in stairwell, basement, underground car park, outdoor areas, boiler rooms, elevator operation, bell system, Intercom, pumps, underground garage door drive, electric skylight motors, escalators, vents and so forth. Depending on the house, the costs for
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  heater and hot water. How much general electricity is required depends very much on the actual conditions in the house.

• The costs of the general electricity are calculated as extra costs apportioned proportionally to the tenants, in the case of the owner this is proportionate to the housing allowance. In Germany, 50 to 67 euros of general electricity are currently added to the bill per apartment and year. In addition to household electricity, which is calculated by meter reading for each apartment.

• The savings opportunities for general electricity are accordingly not so rosy for the individual. Either all the people living in the house try to use as little electricity as possible or electricity-saving renovations are carried out.


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