Unlike telephony or air transport, the liberalization of the electricity market has not brought about that avalanche of discounted offers which generally guide the shrewd consumer in his zapping of savings. Although as the hyper-liberal Carlo Stagnaro recognizes "everything that had to be done from a regulatory point of view has been done, the offers to consumers fall on deaf ears". If only one group of users, the large energy-intensive company, has managed to take advantage of the drop in wholesale kilowatt-hour prices, the rest of the users, from domestic ones to small and medium-sized commercial businesses, pay tariffs that penalize us compared to the rest of Europe. The responsibility, as Luca Pagni writes in his exhaustive article published by La Repubblica, and as reported in various posts, lies in the complexity of the composition of the bill weighed down by various improper charges that are difficult to maneuver.
To the structural rigidity of the bill, there is also the lack of knowledge on the part of the users of the possibilities of reducing the bill. The vast majority do not know of the existence of the TrovaOfferte service, the online service on the Authority's website which helps to find the best offer in one's own province based on the user's average consumption.
Since the complete opening of the electricity market in 2007, only 22,3% of households and 25% of small businesses have changed supplier.
