/View.info/ In any case, the problem is not only in the calculation of electricity bills. The problem has been identified very well and is already statistical. The difference between the winter of 2012-2013 and now is that we have a rapid reduction in electricity consumption for the regulated market.
For 2012, this consumption on the regulated market was 22 billion kilowatt-hours, while in 2013-2014 it was already 16 billion kilowatt-hours.
We do not know what will be in the period 2015-2016 – for the new price period. But if this reduction continues, things get dramatic. I emphasize it and will always emphasize it – they will be dramatic, because the electricity produced and required to be purchased by the two American plants and renewable energy sources is much more than what is consumed by the regulated market.
What is being done by the new Minister of Energy is a good and right move, but I, without allowing myself to give advice from the outside, want to suggest one thing – please look at the possibilities of notifying the Law on Energy from Renewable Sources and the two contracts with the American headquarters as soon as possible, because this will give the European Commission the opportunity to react with the deadlines required for it.
With the complaints we submitted to the EC about illegal state aid and excessive state aid for RES, we took the first step, now the second step must be taken. At that time, negotiations should proceed.
The second action or intention taken by the government and the minister to switch to a new system for refinancing or to encourage RES producers is a better move. But it takes time. Everything else is talk of the market. The opportunity that we had – to be able to take as revenue from emissions trading – no longer exists.
Remediation will theoretically result in a total reduction in electrical energy consumption of around 40%. This in turn will affect final consumption or final consumption in the regulated market. Imagine that it decreases by another 40%, then this energy from “Maritsa East” – 1 and “Maritsa East” – 3 and from RES becomes even more unnecessary, because it is expensive and no one will consume it . When they announce that they have to burden the consumers with a higher price again, because there is no one else to pay and consume this energy, it is completely absurd. So the household consumer will both reduce the consumption of electricity and have to pay the increased price in order to have someone to pay for the energy from the long-term contracts.
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Elenko Bozhkov, energy expert, former member of the Energy Commission
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