Bills, they come back to rise of 1.7% the rates of the gas, but electricity goes down by 1,1% – The Republic

MILAN After the leap last June, when there was registered an increase of 4.3 percent, return to get off the electric energy bills. With the quarterly review, as communicated by the regulatory Authority for energy, consumers will spend 1.1 percent less. The savings is negated by an increase in the gas bill, and in the next three months, the natural gas for domestic use and for heating will cost 1.7 per cent more.

The percentages can also be translated into euros spent on average in a year by Italian families: for electricity, the expense for the family-type in the year between the first of January, and 31 December 2016, will be of 499 euro, with a decrease of 1.1% compared to the equivalent 12-month in the previous year, which means that there have been great changes, since it corresponds to a saving of 5 euro.
it Goes a little better for the gas: in this case, the saving on the expenditure of the family type in the same period will be approximately 1.033 Euro, with a reduction of 8.1%, corresponding to a saving of 91 euro.

How to explain the changes announced by the Authority for electricity? In the case of gas, with a seasonal effect: with the approach of the cold season, the prices of raw materials are bound to rise after the drop in summer. This is because the operators have sought to buy the methane in the months when the prices go down and now that rises the question you resell it at a higher price. The rates that come into force from here to the end of the year to take account of this mechanism.

For electricity, the explanation is more complex. In the previous quarter and increase of 4.3 percent was due mainly to an unexpected increase in costs for the “dispatching”, which purchases energy wholesale from Terna (the company that has the responsibility of bringing the energy along the entire peninsula through its network of high voltage). Following a report by Confindustria, the Authority has opened a survey to understand why some operators had not put in function the electric power plants, and if not they had to raise their prices and force the Triad to buy at a price higher than average. To prevent the recurrence of these episodes, the Authority has already taken some measures “to stop and pursue the possible anomalous keep it in the past few months by operators in the wholesale markets investigate to electricity”. These early measures, waiting for you to finish the investigation that may result in compensation to consumers, have produced the first results. Bringing down the bill for the next three months.

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