San Marino. Asked increases by more than double for electricity and gas bills
Bludgeoning bills, asked for increases by more than double. 104% price increases for gas for domestic use; 120% for gas for business use and 136% for electricity
ANTONIO FABBRI – The requests for increases they are heavy and are 104% for gas for domestic users and 120% for gas for business users. As for electricity, the required increase is 136%. The requests were made known in the press conference by the Secretary of State for relations with the AASS, Theodore Lonferninitogether with the top management of the service company, the president Francis Raffaeli and the director Raoul Chiaruzzi. In any case, the Secretary of State affirmed, to justify the increases motivated by the “crazy” trend of the market, that “the increases are in any case lower than the neighbors compared to the Italians and Europeans. Compared to the Italian averages, tariffs will be 22% lower and 30% lower on the free market. Less than 5 times even compared to energy, for which the requested increase is 136%, less than 57% compared to Italy and the euro area, less than 30% on the free market “.
However, it should be specified if, on balance, for example, excluding VAT and other taxes that are in Italy in the bills, the rates do not get very close. The fact remains that, if we want to give a concrete example, a family that today spends 1000 euros a year on gas, after the increases will spend 2040, more than double. While a company that, for example, spends € 10,000 a year, will spend € 22,000 after the increase. These are not exactly negligible figures, especially for a company that has already made an estimated budget and, now in the running, will find itself with double spending on energy.
However, the director of the company Raoul Chiaruzzi explained that “so far companies and citizens of San Marino have paid less than half of the real cost, which the service company has paid, thanks also to the operations on the market, but not puts it safe for next year. ”So the utility company has charged the utilities less than half. In essence, it has worked to lose out, a circumstance that today is reflected in not a few budget problems.
But it is the Raffaeli year that demonstrates investing in the supply of gas in particular for the next president.
“We have to sign a contract for the furniture and everyone has pulled back. At the moment there is no one who guarantees us gas for next year, so we are accredited as operators who buy on the market. A new challenge but it leads to financial upheavals, with different payment agreements ”. Meanwhile, while the Secretariat of State and Aas announce that the increases will start from November, even if at the moment those who have the last word on the increases, or the Energy Authority, have not yet pronounced themselves.
In the technician, the director explains that the request is to apply variable rates, that is, they involve “the recognition of the entire cost of the raw material to which is added a spread which is the cost of the services that the company provides during distribution both electricity and gas “. It is in the latter component of the tariff that the Company intervened to protect how much citizens can increase, which in any case will be inevitable, considering that “leaving things as planned – said President Raffaeli – has made survival difficult company itself “.
The fact remains that – beyond the optimism of Secretary Lonfernini who reassures “we are working to overcome this situation, as well as success for the pandemic” – it will be a significant sting for families and companies.
Article taken from L’Informazione di San Marino published in full the following day