While the prices of natural gas and other products have soared and electricity prices have remained high, the number of companies that have decided to withdraw from the business, such as bankruptcy, among the companies that carry out the electricity retail business called "new electricity" has been in the past year. The results of a survey of 31 companies have been compiled.
According to Teikoku Databank, a private credit bureau, as of April last year, 31 of the 706 "new power" companies registered in the country have decided to withdraw from the business this year. I went up to.
Of these, 14 went bankrupt, a sharp increase from the previous year's two companies, and since the full liberalization of electricity retailing in 2016, it has become the largest number of bankruptcies per year.
Many of the "new electric power" do not have their own power generation facilities, so they procure electric power through the wholesale market. We analyze that it was the main factor.
The company surveyed said, "Since new electricity has acquired customers by selling cheap electricity prices, it is difficult to pass on the cost to the price. The electricity procurement price has remained high at the moment, and the movement to withdraw from the business is in the future. Is expected to continue. "