ARERA updates the electricity tariffs which decrease by -19.5%. During the year, expenditure will still amount to +67% compared to the previous year.
The Energy Authority has updated the electricity tariffs for the first quarter of 2023: with the new year, encouraging news arrives for families, since the cost of electricity, in fact, is finally going down again, after the strong increases enrollment throughout 2022.
This is only for electricity: in fact, it will be necessary to wait for the first days of January to update the gas tariffs, with the new method of calculating the average ex-post price.
The electricity bill for users on the protected market, according to Arera data, will suffer from -19.5%. This means that, for electricity, the expenditure for the typical Rimini family in the rolling year (between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023), will be around 1374 euros, +67% compared to the 12 months equivalent of the previous year.
An expense which, although evident compared to the previous quarter, will in any case be unsustainable for many families, who are already facing the past increases and which in 2023, excluding the expenditure for electricity and gas, will already have to face for other expenses increased by +1503 ,62 euros.
The characterization of the cost of electricity on the protected market clashes, among other things, with the pronouncement of the Council of State which risks paving the way for exorbitant increases in tariffs on the free market. Despite recent discoveries, we cannot and must not yet let our guard down on the energy front: it is more necessary than ever to make decisions and take adequate measures, more incisive than those envisaged up to now in the manoeuvre.
In fact, we have long been asking you to:
– Expand the number of beneficiaries of the energy, gas and water bonuses (which perhaps they forgot to include due to an oversight in the manoeuvre), further raising the ISEE thresholds up to at least 20 thousand euros for all households and even higher for large families, progressively increasing the amounts disbursed;
– Adopt all necessary measures to free the energy market (electricity, gas and fuel) from speculation and market volatility;
– Have a guarantee for the long installments of bills, as well as a Fund against energy poverty.
– The establishment of a territorial table, with the presence of institutions, consumer associations, social partners, business and commercial associations and electricity, water and gas managers who will offer in the Rimini area for monitoring and surveillance and price trend and contrast to speculation phenomena .
These interventions can be financed through the taxation, even up to 100%, of the super profits of energy companies, introducing a further taxation on the extra profits made by the companies that will contribute in the credit, financial, pharmaceutical and e-commerce sectors. Furthermore, it is essential to find new resources by implementing serious action to combat tax evasion and launching a tax reform that rates incomes and large estates more and work and pensions less, starting with the tax exemption of the next contractual increases for workers
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Federconsumatori Rimini