Save on electricity costs with a dynamic tariff
Simply smart: whether you're charging your electric car, operating your air conditioning or heating your home with a heat pump – our Hourly Tariff lets you benefit from hourly price changes.
Save on electricity costs with a dynamic tariff
Simply smart: whether you're charging your electric car, operating your air conditioning or heating your home with a heat pump – our Hourly Tariff lets you benefit from hourly price changes.
Save on electricity costs with a dynamic tariff
Simply smart: whether you're charging your electric car, operating your air conditioning or heating your home with a heat pump – our Hourly Tariff lets you benefit from hourly price changes.
Benefit directly from falling prices.
If the stock market price of electricity falls, it also decreases for you.
Try it out risk free – you have the option to cancel every month.
Make a conscious choice to use electricity from wind and solar power.
*By using electricity at purchase price and at favorable times, you can save up to 35% compared to a fixed tariff
Current stock market prices
Hourly price adjustments | EPEX Spot DE |
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Publication of hourly market prices | Daily from 2pm on awattar.de and tado.de (for the following day) |
Billing | Advanced payment based on expected costs for the month and monthly bill with your actual usage figures |
Payment | Monthly SEPA direct debit |
Smart meter | Smart meter (intelligent measuring system, recognised under law) |
Tariff contract | 1 month |
Market prices are based on the prices for individual hours determined by the Day-Ahead Market for the UK on the EPEX Spot electricity market. In addition, there's a balancing cost of 3%. You can view the relevant market price in cent/kWh for individual hours of the following day from 2pm onwards on the aWATTar website or on www.epexspot.com, or you can enquire through the aWATTar API.
The grid usage fees, taxes, levies and duties charged by your grid operator are passed along to you at a 1:1 ratio. An additional 1.785 cent/kWh gross is charged as a procurement cost for green electricity certificates, along with other procurement costs. These procurement costs are part of the energy price (see tariff page).
Operating an intelligent metering system (IMS, certified under law (known as a smart meter) is a prerequisite for using our Hourly Tariff. You can order a smart meter from your energy supplier - in most cases, this will be your local grid operator or a local utility company. All further information about smart meters can be found here. If you don't yet have a smart meter installed or your data transmission isn't configured correctly, aWATTar will put you on our Monthly Tariff, which adjusts every month based on the average level of market prices. See here for further details about the Monthly Tariff. We'll always switch you over to the Hourly Tariff on the first of the month.
You're only contractually bound to aWATTar for a month.
Shortly after you start using the service and subsequently always at the start of the month, aWATTar will take a down payment from your account to purchase your energy from the energy market during the month and supply it to you. By transmitting your exact hourly usage, we can then bill you accurately at the beginning of the next month for what you used. The bill will also show your average price per kWh. The amount charged will be offset against the down payment you've already made and a down payment for the upcoming month will be added. The balance will then be automatically deducted from your account via your SEPA direct debit. We initially calculate your down payment monthly based on the annual usage forecast provided by your grid operator. This annual consumption figure is initially divided across the individual months based on information you provided when concluding your contract. This means we'll take into consideration the appliances connected to the respective metering point (normal household appliances, heating, electric cars and/or solar panel systems), as well as appropriate standard profiles. aWATTar requires at least three months after you commission their services to estimate your annual consumption and monthly distribution based on your actual usage data. If you would like to be categorised differently, we will take this into consideration as appropriate. In terms of price, the down payment is based on the aWATTar Monthly Tariff. You can find further details about the calculation method and the current Monthly prices here. Upon terminating your contract, your current down payment will be offset against all outstanding bills and any credit remaining will be paid out with a final settlement based on your smart meter data.
”aWATTar has paved the way to the future by launching the first smart hourly-variable tariff!”
Arne Kompisch, aWATTar customer
”It's nice to see new ideas that show established providers what they could be doing better.”
Rene Kollmann, aWATTar customer
”aWATTar is the best!! Their customer service team is always competent, friendly and makes time for your queries.”
Rene Heissinger, aWATTar customer
”aWATTar offers its customers wholesale prices without the surcharges, which is really fair of them. Although you obviously also need to add taxes, grid usage fees, etc.”
Mareike Bergunde, tado° customer