Vattenfall not allowed to increase customer's rates multiple times a year, court rules

Vattenfall was guilty of “unfair commercial practices” by raising energy rates several times last year, the subdistrict court in Amsterdam ruled. The case concerns a Vattenfall customer whose rates were increased multiple times and who did not want to just accept it. For example, Vattenfall announced a rate change for April 1 - the third of that year - only ten days before the new prices took effect. “This can therefore have far-reaching consequences for energy suppliers who changed the rates more than twice a year based on this unfair change clause.” The court banned Vattenfall from implementing the rate increase of 1 April 2022 for the customer.