The issue of the maxi increase in bills scheduled for October continues to hold its own. “The method of calculating” energy bills must be rewritten, “we are doing it in these hours”, said this morning the Minister of Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani, also interviewed on Radio. “Well, excellent news, but also listen to the consumer associations that have been making unheard proposals for decades and that represent the families who have paid those astronomical bills in recent years,” said Marco Vignola, head of the energy sector of the National Consumers Union.
“Deciding, as in the previous quarter, to allocate the proceeds from the market auctions of CO2 emission permits to lower bills, is a must, but it is not enough. nuclear safety or tariff concessions recognized for the railway sector. The others, such as incentives for renewable sources, must be moved to general taxation. The VAT on gas must be reduced to 10% on the entire consumption and not only on the first 480 Smc per year as it is today “continues Vignola.
“As for the purchase method, other than the calculation method, it would be necessary for the Single Buyer to return to purchase energy not only, as it does now, in the current market but also with medium-long term contracts to obtain better prices and perhaps use the PPA (Power Purchase Agreement), long-term contracts on new renewable energy plants, to give further impetus to the energy transition “concludes Vignola.