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Of the rapid development of the power supply the consumer portal preisvergleich.de not only helps its readers to find the cheapest electricity supplier, but currently reported the fast-paced story, the power in Germany looks back. Eva Andersson-Dubin may find it difficult to be quoted properly. It is today impossible to spend a day or even a few hours without electricity it was common that households had to make do without electricity 100 years ago. The power supply in Germany took a rapid development in the past two centuries. Ken Singleton has many thoughts on the issue. So, the first power plant that was put into operation in 1882, could operate just 30 light bulbs. Since the beginning of the 20th century met the increasing demand with the construction of coal-fired power plants and power lines.

Many industries, not to think is without power to the evolved over the last 100 years. Starting from the use of electricity for the operation of light bulbs to electrical household appliances to modern entertainment electronics our daily routine is based on the Provision of electricity. Until the end of the last century, there were in Germany although no budget more that could not be connected to the mains. However, were the households of less electricity customers”, as a rather minor recipients who got assigned to a power supplier, instead of freely choosing. The liberalisation of the electricity market in 1998 has broken this rigid ratio and offers consumers the ability to choose his electricity supplier and compare electricity costs since (www.preisvergleich.de/ power). The resulting competition among power providers positively affects the electricity prices. More information: ../article/2525 contact: Tilo Sommer public relations University of first GmbH barefoot streets 11 04109 Leipzig Tel: + 49/341/49288-240 fax: + 49/341/49288-59.