The sting will be there: 2022 will open with record increases for energy bills.
In fact, from tomorrow the new increases will be triggered which for the first quarter will be + 55% for electricity and + 41.8% for gas.
The price increases would have been much heavier for consumers without the intervention of the Draghi government, which has placed 3.8 billion euros in the budget law.
However, the situation remains critical: the situation is also shaking companies and many productive sectors, with fashion on the alert, and hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk.
The increases for the first quarter of the year decided by the Regulatory Authority for energy, networks and the environment record a new record compared to the already strong increases of the last quarters (in July + 9.9% for electricity and + 15.3% for gas; in October + 29.8% for electricity and + 14.4% for gas) but they would have been even stronger without the intervention of the executive: the increase in the prices of wholesale energy products and CO2 emission permits, explains Arera, would have led to + 65% for light and + 59.2% for gas.
On the basis of the provisions of the budget law, the Authority was able to confirm the transitional cancellation of the general system charges in the bill and enhanced the social bonus for families in difficulty, making it possible to lighten the impact on 29 million families and 6 millions of micro-enterprises.
The new tariffs will translate into an expense for the typical family in the rolling year (between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022) of over 2,300 euros: approximately 823 euros for the electricity bill (+ 68% compared to the equivalent 12 months of the previous year) and about 1,560 euros for gas (+ 64%). Considering instead 2022 it is a record sting of over a thousand euros more per family: a higher expenditure of 1,008 euros (441 euros for electricity and 567 euros for gas), according to the Consumers' Union and 1,119 according to the calculations of the Codacons. Consumer associations that consider the government's measures insufficient and also appeal to the EU to impose fixed prices.
The dossier has been on the government's table for months now, which so far has already invested 8 billion to mitigate these increases. The dear-energy was today at the center of a phone call between the leader of the Lega Matteo Salvini and the premier.
"The maneuver intervenes with a package of measures strongly desired to counter the rise in bills. These are measures that will be further strengthened by the Government - announced the Minister of Economic Development Giancarlo Giorgetti - which considers it a priority to support our industrial realities and families. in a very delicate moment ".
(Unioneonline / F)
