The activity of exchanging electricity sellers increased last year

According to statistics provided by the Smart Grid data sharing platform administered by Elering, in 2016 electricity sellers were changed almost 26,000 times at consumption points that have electricity contracts, representing a 42 per cent increase on 2015.

On average, nearly 2,200 consumption points changed their seller every month last year, while this number was more than 1,500 in 2015.

The seller is mainly changed at the beginning of January. Since 1 January of this year, the electricity seller has been changed at almost 9,400 consumption points. A year ago, the same indicator was over 9,900 and it was almost 10,000 at the beginning of 2015.

As of the beginning of 2017, almost 580,000 consumption points have concluded a contract for buying electricity. At the moment, the number of consumption points without an electricity contract, and where electricity is used as a universal service, is approximately 140,000. In the space of a year, the number of electricity contract owners has increased by a thousand and the number of universal service users by 3,000.

Overall, there are approximately 720,000 electricity consumption points in Estonia; this number has increased by 4,000 in a year-on-year comparison.