Arera extension to April 2023, XNUMX the activation of the Gradual protection service for micro-enterprises. The Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and the Environment has extended the activation date of the service by 3 months to accompany the transition to the free market of micro enterprises (with an engaged electrical power equal to or less than 15 kW) and for the generality of the non-household customers (for example some condominiums) which - starting from 1 January 2023, as required by the competition law 124/17 - can no longer be supplied permanently in the enhanced protection service. Therefore, the protection provider will continue the normal service until 1 April.
The decision, explains the Authority, was made necessary by the deferment of more than two months of the dates for carrying out the tender procedures that should have assigned the service at the beginning of October 2022.
The Authority had already postponed the timing for the tender procedures due to the computer attack suffered by GSE group At the end of August. With the publication, by Acquirente Unico, of the tender regulations updated with the new dates, it takes three months from the publication of the related results for the transfer of customers to the new operators of the gradual protections.
End of the enhanced protection regime for micro-enterprises: what happens
To ensure continuity of supply, in the period between 1 January 2023 and 1 April 2023, micro-enterprises and non-domestic customers who have not yet chosen a seller on the free market, "will still be temporarily served by their own standard offer operator , under the same active conditions”.
During this period, non-domestic customers will not be able to request a return to the enhanced protection service if they already have an a free market conditions.
