Family shoppers pays even when they don’t devour electrical energy, as a result of they’ll introduce an “electrical energy meter” charge for households in Bulgaria. Representatives of electrical energy distribution firms and KEVR united across the thought. This occurred throughout an open assembly of the vitality regulator on family electrical energy costs. It stays solely to specify how precisely the brand new flat charge for households will probably be decided.
Zornitsa Genova from “Electrical energy Distribution Networks West” demanded that as of July 1, family subscribers pay an entry charge to be decided in kilowatts per day or in amperes. The aim is for households to pay the charge each month, not simply after they use electrical energy. The introduction of the charge is well timed given the upcoming liberalization of the electrical energy marketplace for households, commented Zornitsa Genova.
Shteryu Radev from “Electrorazpradelenie Yug” additionally requested {that a} charge be launched for family customers, which doesn’t depend upon the consumption of electrical energy. From the appliance submitted to KEVR, it’s clear that “Electrorazpradelenie Yug” needs family subscribers to pay an entry charge, which would be the identical for every month of the yr and to be paid for every electrical energy meter.
I assist the introduction of an entry worth for family customers primarily based on related energy, commented Alexander Yordanov, a member of KEVR. However he suggested vitality operators to synchronize their method to setting the brand new grid entry charge.
At present, households pay a charge for entry and transmission of electrical energy, which is set primarily based on consumption. That’s, they pay solely after they use electrical energy.
If the brand new charge is launched, house owners of villas, vacation properties and residences which can be solely used for a number of months of the yr or are even uninhabited can even need to pay for electrical energy each month. Now the electrical energy distribution firms (EPCs) need to make them pay an “electrical meter” charge.
By the identical token, individuals will be requested to pay a vignette even when they do not have a automotive, as a result of having an excellent street to a property is a prerequisite for the property proprietor to purchase a automotive.
The working group on the KEVR, which is getting ready the report on electrical energy costs from July 1, commented that the ERPs supply totally different choices for figuring out the entry charge, with which every firm solves its personal issues. The ERP in Western Bulgaria solves its downside with the presence of many villas in its territory, and the ERP in South-Japanese Bulgaria solves its downside with the expansion of RES installations. There needs to be a unified method in figuring out the charge for households, which might occur if within the autumn the three EPPs come out with a standard place. So the charge may come into impact from 1 July 2025.
From the information offered by one of many ERPs to KEVR, it’s clear that in solely 5 EU international locations individuals pay even with out consuming electrical energy. These are Austria, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and France. There isn’t any such follow within the different over 20 EU international locations.
From July 1, 2024, electrical energy for households will change into costlier, however there’ll nonetheless be no “electrical meter” charge. However the improve within the worth of electrical energy from the start of subsequent month could also be higher than the preliminary estimates of KEVR. KEVR’s proposal is for the value of family electrical energy to rise by a mean of 1.39% from July 1, with the biggest worth improve in Western Bulgaria, and a slight worth lower is even foreseen in Northeastern Bulgaria. But when till the top of June the development of electrical energy worth will increase on the free market is maintained, the rise within the worth of family electrical energy could also be higher, the KEVR working group commented.
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