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Tomorrow, suppliers will announce new nominal increases in electricity bills

Tomorrow, suppliers will announce new nominal increases in electricity bills

The increase is expected Competitive electricity charges For the month of January which suppliers will announce tomorrow 20th January as they have to do so on this date every month.

That’s what the information says and how it appears Wholesale price track electricityAnd the It would probably be a surprise if they stay at current month levels.

According to the data of the Hellenic Energy Exchange for the 19-day period of December, the average price in the next day’s market is at the level of 300 euros per megawatt hour. For the same period in November, it was 205.86 euros. The average price in one month is about 45% higher.

Although of course in the past six days the average stock market price of electricity It’s down 50% to €200 today from around €400 on the 14thHowever, service providers, as supported by executives, cannot take risks and at least maintain tariffs at December levels. The tension in the Dutch TTF market was also transferred to the Greek electricity stock market.

Sources want the highest prices that service providers will advertise Exceeding € 0.41 per kWh And the lowest is at least 0.35 euros.

It is noteworthy that the competitive fees for the month of December ranged between 0.27 and 0.38 euros per kilowatt hour.

Of course, it should be noted that final consumer prices are always shaped by subsidies for electricity bills. Government, in all probability, according to the tactics from August onwards when applying the prescribed model, You will support families and businesses this way So that the average retail price is between 0.15 and 0.17 euros per kWh. Much more than the moment we are in long before the elections The general philosophy for government interventions is benefits trying to put out the consumer burden fires.

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In practice, this means that they must be given Much more money In order to pay the electricity subsidies for January, it is not yet clear whether the amounts saved from the RES and from the withholding of the surplus profits of energy producers will be sufficient, or if the budget will also need to disburse the funds.

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