“Without a cover contract, gas would cost twice as much”
The dear energy it worries citizens and businesses more and more. In the last few hours just ANIS highlighted the great fears of San Marino companies ask that as much as possible be done to save the country’s economic and financial fabric.
He goes back to talk in Finance Commission with the expected reference of the AAAS leaders. Central point the financial contract of provision of coverage of the natural gas. From the ranks of both the majority than ofopposition requests for clarification on the subject. “With the new contract, he says Pasquale Valentino Pdcs, if I understand correctly, we buy a quantity at a price. What happens if we consume less or more? ” Andrea Zafferani Repubblica Futura, asked if it was taken into account that energy-intensive companies could buy directly from AASS, with the risk of supplying quantities of gas higher than the average in recent years? “There could be a strategy – he underlines Guglielmo CasaliPdcs – to deal with supplies in a different way from the market economy? “Still on the theme of consumption Emanuele Santi di Rete asks if there have been increases by those who have moved productions from Italy to San Marino.
The AAAS leaders have specified that the financial contract is about a safeguard tool and therefore do not exclude the need to provision the system on the free market. “The coverage – explains Key to Energy’s AAAS consultant Massimo Poiesi – advantages for a specific consumption, on the 40 million cubic meters, after which one must necessarily go and buy a free market. Without this coverage, however, the purchase price for San Marino it would be almost twice as high“. With the contract “we have transformed the purchase price from variable to fixed, to 43.75- explains the president Aass Francesco Raffaeli – the effect of the transaction has brought back the balance between purchase and sale prices. It allowed us to “earn” an important amount with which we supported the lack of tariff adjustment ”.
From the Secretary Teodoro Lonfernini then reaffirmed the guarantee that San Marino will not remain in the cold: “If gas continues to arrive in Europe and Italy, it will also be in the Republic. We have already implemented several savings measure and we are about to launch the energy reduction plan as well as actions in support of vulnerable groups and those who are unable to meet the cost of utilities “. Compared to the update however “necessary” of energy tariffs, the Secretary of State with responsibility for Relations with Aass explains that, in response to requests and requests from the government received from the Company and from the government requests received from the Company several months earlier, “the first update from the Authority was obtained in late December 2021 “, a provision defined as “completely insufficient with respect to market movements”. Hence the need to “tweak the tariffs launched with that update twice during construction in the following months, as it was deemed the same”, he continues. The Secretary of State is critical of the resistance demonstrated by the Authority to requests for tariff updates: “We are facing a real energy crisis and emergency.
On fare theme explained how the continuous fluctuation of the market no longer allows a fixed tariff and that is why we will switch to tariff indicated which involve the recognition of the cost of the raw material to which a SPRED is added, therefore the cost of the services that the company provides. On the new tariff structure Eva GuidiFree, asks to know what the percentage incidence of the parts making up the spread might be.