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Re:Hetzner announcement: Price changes for servers ordered v... by beebob on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:34AM (#30023232)
The basic electricity coverage that you are getting if you have no contract with any provider was around 74 €ct/kWh beginning of the year (maybe even 80 €ct, depending on where you live). But some are reducing that to around 54 €ct/kWh again, since it was just to cover the surge of new users that required them to buy energy for high prices. Having a proper contract with an energy provider it's currently around 46 €ct/kWh last I checked.

Previous prices were around 31 €ct/kWh on average (seen them as low as 26 €ct/kWh).

People that have ongoing contracts are the lucky ones currently.

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Re:Hetzner announcement: Price changes for servers ordered v... by ftth_finland on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:46AM (#30023369)
That’s insane!

If I were to sign a new contract right now in Finland I’d pay 8 cents per kWh. Including transfer fees and taxes that comes to less than 15 cents all in.

And prices are extremely high right now over here. Normally you’d pay under 10 cents all in.

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Re:Hetzner announcement: Price changes for servers ordered v... by entropie on Friday January 21, 2022 @09:00AM (#30023543)
Electricity was always quite expensive in germany.

Right now for new contracts some pay like 80c/kwh.

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Re:Hetzner announcement: Price changes for servers ordered v... by throwaway2037 on Friday January 21, 2022 @09:06AM (#30023617)
This is good information. Thank you to share.

Do you think Finnish electricity prices are so much cheaper because of ample nuclear power?

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Re:Hetzner announcement: Price changes for servers ordered v... by ftth_finland on Friday January 21, 2022 @09:49AM (#30024204)
Nuclear power is only 16% of generation capacity. Hydro is larger at 18%. Next up are biofuels 15%, wind 14% and natural gas at 10%.

Our newest nuclear power plant won’t be in production until summer, but once that comes online the nuclear share will go up.

Imports are mainly Russian nuclear and Scandinavian hydro.

Hydro and nuclear definitely help, as well as the low dependency on fossil fuels.

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Re:Hetzner announcement: Price changes for servers ordered v... by suction on Friday January 21, 2022 @09:00AM (#30023535)
Do you know if in Finland, those prices are subsidised in any way?
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Re:Hetzner announcement: Price changes for servers ordered v... by native_samples on Saturday January 22, 2022 @07:36AM (#30036147)
Note that Hetzner has a datacenter in Finland! Feeling lucky right now that I picked Helsinki DC for my own server.
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Re:Hetzner announcement: Price changes for servers ordered v... by ftth_finland on Friday January 21, 2022 @09:03AM (#30023574)
No, these are market prices. We have no subsidized power in Finland.
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