• Rates. From July 1 light bills + 1.9%, gas -6.9%
  • Down the electricity and gas bills for customers in the protected market

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24 September 2019 Rising prices for electricity and gas in the last quarter of the year. From October 1st, the authority for energy will communicate, for the typical family there will be an increase of 2.6% for the electricity bill and 3.9% for the gas. "Seasonal trend - explains the Authority -, reduction of Dutch gas production, some restrictions on access to European transit gas pipelines are among the phenomena that push up the price of gas, still predominant also in electricity production. concerning electricity production the fears for a possible decline in French production in the coming months due to problems in some nuclear power plants are weighing. " To this "must be added the recent geopolitical tensions, linked to the attacks on Saudi oil platforms that have influenced the prices of the main energy commodities. They are therefore mainly the seasonal trend of the markets and the international criticalities to push up the energy bills for protected customers in the fourth quarter of 2019 ".

18 euros more per family than 2018
"With the update of the electricity and gas tariffs ordered today by the Energy Authority, household spending on energy bills increased in 2019 by +18 euros for the whole family unit compared to last year (+7 euros for electricity , +11 euros for gas) ". This was stated by Codacons, commenting on the new rates announced today by Arera.

Codacons: taxes too high
To weigh on the increase in the bills of the Italians, however, is the excessive taxation that applies to electricity and gas bills - Codacons reports. "Today on every gas bill, including taxes and system charges, you pay 43% of taxes, while on electricity the taxation is 35.6% - states president Carlo Rienzi - This brings the energy bills of the Italians to be more expensive by 20% than the EU average. We also highlight how the tariff increases of the gas are triggered in conjunction with the greater consumption of families in view of the winter period, aggravating the consequences for consumers ". For the Codacons "the new tariffs arranged by Arera, finally, blatantly disprove the data provided a few months by a consumer association which, in a completely inconclusive, had spoken of record savings for Italians in the course of 2019, savings in reality non-existent as demonstrated by the variations of today set by the Authority ".