Since 1 July 2016, energy bills are more expensive. According to what has been established by the Authority, in the months of July-August and September the price increase will be equal to 4,3% for electricity and 1,9% for gas. Despite this, according to the Authority, during 2016 Italian users will enjoy savings of more than 70 euros.
Going into detail, each family will spend about 503 euros for electricity for the period from 1 October 2015 to 30 September 2016 (-0,6% per year), while for gas the cost per family will be 1.068 euros (-5,9%).
But the calculations relating to the lower annual expenditure have not served to appease the anger of the various consumer associations for the increases decreed by the Authority for the third quarter of 2016. The reasons that caused the increase in prices contribute to giving vigor to the protests. Two items have determined the greater burden on energy users: on the one hand, the increase in the procurement component supported by the Single Buyer, which in turn is affected by the upward revision of the estimates relating to the purchase costs of raw materials in 2 °half 2016, on the other hand, the growth in dispatching costs, i.e. the costs incurred by the Grid Operator (Terna) to keep the electricity system in balance.
On the other hand, on gas as reported by FIRSTonline earlier, "the slight growth of the raw material component and the limited adjustment of the distribution and metering component have an influence".
After strong protests from Codacons, which asked the Government to intervene to remedy the excessive tax burden on energy, even CODICI rails against price increases, determined, as admitted by the Authority itself, by a series of critical issues "attributable to anomalous strategies adopted by various operators on the wholesale electricity market", on which the Energy Authority has launched a prescriptive-sanctioning procedure, ordering the immediate cessation of the anomalous conduct in progress but has classified the attachments with the names of the operators.
Duro is responsible for institutional relations and regulatory affairs of Codes Luigi Gabriele that even the closure of the Authority, considered deficient in its role as a "vigilante". Codes asks that the names of the operators smacked of speculation be made public: "That's enough, this authority closes the meters for those who do not pay €50 for energy, passing the costs on to all the others and instead does nothing to stop speculators who in one night earning 37400 million out of nothing. Money we will never see again." Codes disputes the "ridiculous sanctions imposed by the AEEGSI". And she attacks in the belief that “absolutely nothing happens, not only because new companies open and close when they want but because they manage to get away with administrative appeals. We ask ourselves once again – continues Gabriele – what is this Authority for? Close it and re-entrust the powers to the ministry, given that only the antitrust is responsible for market surveillance".
