The Minister of Energy, Claudio Huepe, dismissed a 40% increase in the electricity bills of the population, as reported by the National Energy Commission (CNE), who indicated that before the end of the Price Stabilization Fund for Energy if no measures are taken, the previously described scenario can be fulfilled.
The CNE emphasized that during this semester, the limit of the Energy Price Specialization Fund would be reached, a mechanism that was implemented to freeze the increases that should occur after the social outbreak in 2019, which could increase by 40%. the light beads.
In conversation with Cooperativa, the head of Energy commented that the Government is preparing a bill in order to avoid increases in the value of electricity supply.
“As the CNE says, that fund is running out and, therefore, if there were no action, the account would actually go up, but what is happening: we realized that since we entered the Government and began to prepare a bill that is not only going to solve this problem, which was punctual, but also tries to develop a longer-term and definitive solution,” he stressed.
The Secretary of State stated that the mechanism is that “we are going to leave it fixed for the rest of 2022, that is, during the tariff period that begins in July until December, the electricity bill would be fixed except for the CPI of more or less 82% of regulated users. The rest, the other 18% more or less, there will be a moderate increase between 5-10% of their account throughout the period, in such a way as to progressively recover real prices” he explained.
“Then, what is going to happen is that as of next year there is going to be a progressive increase, again smooth in the account that is going to be larger in those consumers who consume more, again generating an incentive for energy deficiency,” complement.
Along the same lines, Huepe explained that the project is divided into three. The first, to face “this specific problem that this fund is running out and that, therefore, the bills would go up.”
The second of them is about having a mechanism “that protects us against other emergency situations in which the system has costs that have to be covered in some way, and for which we are not prepared and, third, that it protects itself energy efficiency throughout this design”, he concluded.
