measures taken by the government for stop the price increase energy managed to slow down for about a second. increase in third-household energy billsAccording to a study by Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3). Specifically, ‘fighting inflation’ measures save 350 euros to consumers themselves electricity, gas and fuel bill with a total amount of 2,942 euros 29% higher Compared to the previous year, without the Measures, the increase compared to 2021 would be: 44% (up to a total of 3,292 Euros).
Measures include tax reduction on electricity and gas bill (in both cases, VAT reduction from 21% to 5% and special electricity tax reduction from 5.11% to 0.5%, as well as suspension of electricity generation tax) is located. ), cutting off the benefits of nuclear and hydraulic power plants due to the increase in gas prices, imposing an upper limit on gas in electricity production, regularization of charging for renewable energiesImprovements to the regulated gas hike limit known as TUR, 20 cents discount on gasoline and diesel, butane bottle price hike limit and social bonus.
According to research at home more vulnerable or lower income The benefits have been greater. reduction energy bill Regarding expenditure, it represents about 2.5% for low-income households and about 0.8% for high-income households; reduce the electricity bill, because in case fuels is clearly reactionary. But since expenses increase with income and some measures general characterIn absolute terms, the benefits increase with the wealth of the household: savings for the poorest households 314 euros and 488 euros for the richest households.
On the other hand, household less affected they are mostly older people who live alone or whose members are inactive in the labor market, often with a lower income due to rising prices. This most affected These are those in dispersed (rural) environments or small municipalities because of their greater willingness to raise fuel prices.
in the special case bills for electricity average consumer — with 2,674 kilowatt-hours of consumption and 4.1 kilowatts of power per year — the increase in spending was 15%, totaling 947 euros, but without government measures the increase would have been 35% (1,110 euros). The effect is different depending on the ratio. Thus, for consumers regulated market, With the Voluntary Price for Small Consumer (PVPC) ratio, the increase was 35%, up to an average of 975.94 euros (corresponding to 1,341.15 Euros without measures); for customers on the free market the increase was 15%, totaling 803.67 euros (without measures it would be 91.43 euros).
The regulated tariff is directly dependent on the tariff. wholesale prices and therefore the increase in the daily market, as well as the decrease in the last months.
On the contrary, 1.3 million vulnerable and severely vulnerable customers with electricity social bonding –those who have discounted between 65% and 80% on their bills since the beginning of the war– received a receipt With lower amounts than last year –403.23 euros in the first case and 289.29 euros in the second case–. However, the study concluded that “a high percentage of buyers are not really eligible for social bonds, so an effective way to protect vulnerable households against current or future price increases is to accelerate and to facilitate access to such bonds as much as possibleequal consider the automatic concession given to some groups for example, recipients Minimum Vital Income. Finally, the criteria for access to social bonuses should, logically, be income dependent.”
In the case of gas, the average bill was 1,039.58 euros inside free market34.37% more than in 2021, when it comes to the regulated market known as TUR.This meant an average cost for consumers of €697.34, 17.43% less than last year, but it would have been almost half the cost had the Government not intervened and frozen its increases. This consumers vulnerable or seriously vulnerable recipients thermal social bonus From this average bill — which the power plug deserves — they were able to deduct between 50 and 498 euros in the first case and between 80 and 797 euros in the second case. climate zone.
In the case of fuelsGasoline increased by 32% to a total of 725 euros per household (without the measures, spending would have increased by 44% to 792 euros) and diesel increased by 48%, reaching the total bill of 837 euros (without measures). , spending will increase by 61% compared to last year to a total of 913 euros).