High electricity prices, as well as the war in Ukraine and the blockade in Russia, changed the behavior of customers in the electricity and gas markets. This resulted in a lot of movement in the market and a constant change of marketers. However, in this environment, Community of Valencia becomes autonomous community with the fewest gas supplier changes in the last quarter of 2022Last recorded according to data released by the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC).
In this way, the Community of Valencia is a 4.9% exchange rate with Andalusia, the autonomous community with the lowest. On the contrary, the country average is 8.4%. These data were obtained by calculating the ratio between the number of changes activated and the number of registered replenishment points in each area.
While these data show the Community as the country most loyal to its marketer, the change was significant when compared to data for the same period last year. 31,371 changes were recorded in the last quarter of 2022, of which 18,799 -60%- were regulated market exits. your gas.
In its place, Records for the last quarter of 2021 indicate marketer changes of 16,031 users, almost half of what is calculated today.. Also, the number of users migrating to the regulated market was only 562, an increase of 3,245%. The reductions applied by the Government to the regulated tariff, together with the dependence on Russian gas, are two important factors in this area.
Loyalty indexes of companies in the electricity market also reflect a certain conservatism in the Valencian Community. Second autonomous community with the lowest trading company exchange rate after the Canary Islands and not counting the low records of Ceuta and Melilla.
In addition, the exchange rate on the total light points – 3,651.305 at the time of calculation – is 4.4% It is similar to the 4.5% exchange rate calculated in the same period of the previous year. In this sense, the country average increased, but when the electricity crisis and exorbitant electricity prices were taken into account, the values remained stable and rose from 4.8% to 5.2%.
In 2022, 164,004 company changes were made in the same period of the previous year, while 161,098 company changes were made. This reduction in changes, The Valencian Community is becoming more and more dependent on energy produced in other regions This is due to the increase in electricity demand faster than production.
Regarding the numerical relationship made by the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) of the total exchange of marketers in the electricity market -161,098- within the Community, what is done in light companies dominates the free market. In total, these are 119,837 changes, 74% of the total.
25,072 exits from the regulated market to the free market are far from these figures. (approximately 16% of the total), 16,135 entries from the free market to the regulated market (10% of the total), and 54 insignificant changes between reference trading companies in the regulated market (0.03% of the total).