Constant and unpredictable daily increases in electricity prices caused major headaches for Belgian refrigeration companies in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the refrigeration units of cold storage facilities run on electricity, electricity - next to staff wages - is the most important cost item. The increase in wages is determined by the evolution of the consumption index, and thanks to the forecasts of the planning office, the operator of a cold store can take this into account in his costing. But if at the end of the month the electricity bill is suddenly double what he had expected, it is a disaster, since the storage cost is agreed with the customer in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To protect refrigeration and freezer companies from this situation, BECOLD developed a quarterly and a monthly energy surcharge in September 2022. This surcharge is still being used.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":1391,"template":"","class_list":["post-1390","realisatie","type-realisatie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/be-cold.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/realisatie\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/be-cold.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/realisatie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/be-cold.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/realisatie"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/be-cold.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/be-cold.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}