The government is preparing important changes content electricity bills what customers get. All invoices from all small customers: both receipts sent by large companies offering the regulated rate (so-called PVPC) and receipts sent by anyone sold on the free market.
Changes are among the measures taken. More Energy Security Plans -The Spanish contingency plan was approved this Tuesday, with measures to protect itself against the Russian threat that was approved and should be sent to Brussels- and they are calling Avoid biased information from companies about the impact. Iberian exceptionTo involve tips for customers to reduce their consumption and encourage savings with data on what’s going on. Average consumption of the neighborhood where each customer lives.
Managed by the Ministry of Ecological Transition Theresa RiveraIt aims to force power companies to add more transparent information about its supposed impact. Iberian exceptionThe mechanism that puts a cap on the price of gas used in electricity generation since last June to limit electricity increases.
Free market electricity companies are included in the invoices in which they send information to their customers about the cost of their usual consumption, as well as the additional cost, some of which must be paid to reimburse their gas power plants. Iberian exception to prevent them from producing at a loss. and heor they did it with different terminology, even referring to this compensation as a tax.
The government has companies that use this data as a including unified terminology and also information on what the electricity market price would have been if it had not been implemented. The Iberian mechanism and hence the savings to all customers. According to the calculation of the Ministry, gas cap has saved more than 2,800 million since mid-June For all customers, thanks to the fact that this compensation has managed to control the price of the electricity market, including the impact on gas power plants.
While removing the ballot box from the Ministry of Ecological Transition, it was underlined that the measures taken last year directly affected the price paid by households and companies for electricity and gas. According to their estimates, the tax cuts, cuts in regulated costs, and the effect of the gas ceiling have caused the 10 million customers to pay for electricity at a regulated rate, avoiding a 33% increase in the price they would pay. .without dimensions. Without the reduction in gas VAT and the quarterly increase limit in the regulated gas rate, customers assigned the TUR1 rate (hot water only) would pay 45% more, and TUR consumers 2 (hot water and heating) would be 49% more.
Know the consumption of the neighborhood
Future bills will also include key tips for consumers on how to reduce their usage. save money and increase your energy efficiency and also a comparator of the average electricity consumption of the residents of the neighborhood where the customer resides, with information on the development of demand by postal code, as a formula for improving the efficient use of electricity consumption.
Changes to the bills will not happen immediately after the contingency plan is approved by the Cabinet, but certain regulatory development will require agreement with the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) and will need to be facilitated. an adaptation period for electricity distributors (companies that control grids and measure consumption) and marketers (who provide direct supplies to customers) to prepare their systems and change bills.