Rates: gas and electricity bills cheaper in 2015 – Finanzaonline.com

Rates: gas and electricity bills cheaper in 2015 – Finanzaonline.com

In particular, for the electricity spending on family-type in the year from April 2014 to March 2015 will be of 513 Euros, a decrease of 0.6% compared to the equivalent of the previous 12 months (April 2013-March 2014). As for the gas type household spending for the same period will be € 1,143, a reduction of about 6%, corresponding to a significant saving of € 72.

The reduction for electricity in the next quarter is s ostanzialmente due to the reduction in costs for the purchase of “material energy” and to maintain balance in the system (dispatching) , offset in part by higher prices to cover the fixed costs of the network – to be distributed over a smaller amount of energy due to the decline in consumption – and a slight adjustment of system charges. For gas, the small reduction, “however, particularly significant in the full consumption in the Authority reflects recent expectations on wholesale prices in Italy and Europe for the next quarter expected in line with those of the last quarter of 2014, despite prices tends to be higher because about deliveries winter. At market prices, after the reform of the Authority, are in fact related also the conditions of the protection gas, reform that fully conveys to consumers the trend of wholesale prices.

Codacons, declining insufficient to recover large increases in bills recorded in the last 10 years

Good news for Italian consumers the reduction of tariffs and gas firm today Authority for Electricity. This was stated by the Codacons , recalling that however the decline is insufficient to recover the large increases in bills recorded in the last 10 years. “From 2004 to December 2014 – report association president Carlo Rienzi – energy prices have recorded in our country an average increase of 39.2%, resulting in a higher overall spending per family amounted to EUR +470 compared to 10 years ago ( +188 euro light; +282 Euro gas). “For this you need to work towards a significant reduction of the bills in favor of users, reducing the taxation which accounts for 36% of the final price paid by consumers, against a European average of 20%,” said Rienzi.