The new electricity bill will include

three different price ranges per day

and will give a much greater weight to consumption over the fixed part to try to force homes and companies to be more efficient in their energy use.

These will be the main novelties that will include from next June 1 the electricity bill of

10.7 million consumers

covered by the

Voluntary Price for the Small Consumer (PVPC).

The new system includes a complex change in methodology with the aim of simplifying the invoice and promoting its understanding by families.

However, instead of simplifying it, it raises the blocks that will make up the bill to five: energy consumed, "tolls" destined to pay the remuneration of the electrical networks, "charges" directed to finance other costs of the system, the rent of the meter and taxes.

The first of the parts refers to the electricity consumed each month, the price of which is determined by the hour-by-hour fluctuation of the cost of one kilowatt hour in the wholesale market.

This varies depending on supply and demand and can be consulted on the website of the Red Eléctrica operator.

The next legs are tolls and charges, grouped so far into a single item. In the new receipt, both parties are divided: the first will be established by the

National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC),

as established by European regulations, and the second by the

Ministry of Ecological Transition.

In both cases, the price will have a fixed part and another variable that will depend on consumption, divided by sections.

The most expensive segment will be the

peak hours

(from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 18:00 to 22:00), followed by the

flat hours

(08: 00-10: 00; 14: 00-18 : 00 and 22: 00-00: 00) and the

valley hours

(00: 00-08: 00, weekends and holidays).

Currently, consumers obtain a different price for electricity depending on the time of day they consume it, but the new system intensifies it by including these variations in rates in tolls and charges.

Finally, the invoice will include a fixed payment to the distributor for the

meter rental

and the two taxes that fall on the bill: Electricity (5.1%) and VAT (21%).

Sources from the Ministry of Ecological Transition explain that the new rate will start with a 3% drop due to the reduction in tolls approved by the

CNMC

, and from there its evolution will depend on both consumption and the price of the electricity market. For this reason, the Government explains that the rate will benefit those who are able to reduce their energy consumption or transfer it to the hours called plains or valleys.

"The change in structures means that consumers have to change to adapt their consumption pattern. Those who are interested in and manage their energy can shift their consumption to cheaper periods and benefit from these price reductions when they put the

washing machine or the oven ",

explain sources of the Executive. The variable part, that is, linked to consumption, will mark 75% of the final cost, compared to the current 40%.

In the sector, they calculate that the new electricity bill will translate into a

monthly discount of five euros for an average consumer,

although it will harm the million users who are currently covered by the current hourly discrimination rate that encourages consumption at night. Another change will be the possibility of hiring two different powers for different periods, in such a way that a home can have little power during the day and raise it at night if it had to recharge, for example, an electric car.

The measure will only affect customers under the old regulated tariff -now called PVPC-, which is why the

16 million households that have contracted their supply in the liberalized market are left out.

In that case, the price will be marked by the offer that they sign with the electricity marketer on duty.

The new electricity billing system comes at a time when the wholesale market price is skyrocketing compared to the 2020 records. April, without going any further, was the most expensive in the last 31 years.

However, Ecological Transition sources explain that the increase in prices does not affect only Spain and is linked to the higher international price of gas and the sharp rise in the cost of Co2 emission rights.

In this sense, they point out that any solution should come from the European Union.

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