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According to the Commission, the path already taken in the electricity and gas market by separating network operators and energy suppliers shall also be extended to district and heating networks. However, in particular these networks question how reasonable the proposal is, as they are primarily small closed networks where delivery by different suppliers is not possible. The Package does not include the overdue strengthening of consumer rights concerning district heating networks, for example with regard to pricing, information duty or default action, similar to the existing ones in the electricity and gas market. The demand to introduce the mandatory use of smart meters for the gas market, district heating networks up to submetering in blocks of flats, represent enormous financial expenditure, which has predominantly to be borne by consumers and which does not bear any relationship to the possible benefit from an energy economic point of view.
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