The application of the new electricity tariff meets its first week with great controversy and with a significant increase in inquiries from consumers. User service entities and organizations denounce the barrage of calls that marketers are making in recent days to consumers, advising them to leave the regulated market and go free. They go without saying in their call that the move to the free market means the loss of the social bond. As reported in the program A Coruña Opinions of Radio Coruña Cadena SER, the technical director of the OMIC, Municipal Consumer Information Office of A Coruña, Lidia White, ” some consumers call in anguish, crying, when they realize that they have changed their marketer“.
The Asociation Adicae estimates that at least 20% of the population will have many difficulties to face the electricity bill because, it points out, it will become more expensive. An increase that, in the opinion of Ana Folgar, the member of the board of directors of Adicae Galicia and second vice president of the association at the state level, will widen the energy poverty gap.
In the last 10 years, the electricity bill has risen 60% in Spain. The professor of Applied Economics at the University of Santiago de Compostela Rosa Regueiro affects the negative of the oligopoly of the energy sector and criticizes the lack of presence of the Spanish State in a strategic sector. In this liberalization process “a key and determining factor is left out again: the price determination system,” Regueiro stated.
The National Competition Market Commission, CNMC, estimates that average households could experience reductions of 3% per month with the new rates. An estimate not shared by Adicae or Jesus Castro, director of the Provincial Energy Agency Foundation for those who should remember that the government remember that “light is not a luxury item.” More if possible, they add, in an economic situation so complicated by the pandemic.
New time sections
The rise in light is up to 50% at peak hours: from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. The price shoots up between nine and ten at night. The off-peak hours are set between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m., from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and from 10 p.m. to midnight. The Minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, considers that the new time zones will serve to save if households change some habits.
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