Current bills have skyrocketed since January 1. How to avoid price increases

Most consumers will pay higher current prices, effective January 1, if they do not change their contract with the provider, show the offers published so far by the providers. At the beginning of next year, the electricity market will be liberalized, which means that prices will no longer be regulated by the state. Customers have two options. One is to do nothing and let the current provider continue to deliver them up to date, at a “universal service price,” but this option comes with substantial increases in bills. The other is to negotiate the contract with the current supplier or choose another supplier, at a “competitive price.”

Most of the offers posted by providers show that customers who do not opt ​​for a competitive provider will pay higher bills, according to data analyzed by profit.ro.

For example, domestic consumers in Moldova ai EON Whoever does not opt ​​for a competitive provider will pay bills 13.4% higher than the current ones from January next year. As of January 1, the company will charge a price for universal service of 0.7707987 lei / KWh (with VAT), compared to the current price of 0.6797 lei / KWh (with VAT). With a bill of 100 KWh, a regulated domestic consumer currently pays 67.97 lei and, from January, will pay 13.4% or 9 lei more, respectively 77.07 lei.

Household consumers in Olten ai THROUGH Those who do not opt ​​for a competitive provider will pay bills from January 17.5% higher than the current ones. The price currently paid by the company’s customers is 0.6742659 lei / KWh (with VAT), and as of January 1 it will increase to 0.792 lei / KWh (with VAT). With a bill of 100 KWh, it turns out that if at present a regulated domestic consumer pays 67.42 lei, from January he will pay 17.5% or almost 12 lei more, 79.2 lei.

Your domestic clients Electric since Transylvania and the northern part of Muntenia Whoever does not opt ​​for a competitive provider will pay higher bills with a percentage between 13.9 and 16.5% than the current ones. For the Muntenia Nord area (Vrancea, Galaţi, Buzău, Brăila, Prahova and Dâmboviţa counties), customers currently pay 0.6582128 lei / KWh (with VAT), and from January 1 they will pay 0.7598269 lei / KWh (with VAT)). For the southern Transylvania area (Alba, Braşov, Covasna, Harghita, Mureş and Sibiu counties), the current price is 0.6446349 lei / KWh (with VAT), and as of January 1 it will be 0.7512232 lei / KWh (with VAT). For the northern area of ​​Transylvania (Satu Mare, Maramureş, Bistriţa Năsăud, Bihor, Sălaj and Cluj counties) the current price is 0.651168 lei / KWh (with VAT), and as of January 1 it will be 0, 7,415,247 lei / KWh (with VAT). In other words, at a bill of 100 KWh, customers from the Muntenia Nord area will pay 10 lei more (75, instead of 65 lei), those from southern Transylvania 11 lei more (75, instead of 64 lei) , and those of northern Transylvania with 9 lei more (74, instead of 65 lei).

customers At since Bucharest Whoever does not opt ​​for a competitive supplier will pay, as of January next year, higher bills of 23.4%. Thus, if one KWh was currently charged at a price of 0.59 lei (with VAT), as of January 1 the new price will be 0.7309 (with VAT). Similar for consumers At since Banat or Dobrogea, who will pay 25.7% and 18% more than what they currently pay. Thus, in the case of Banat residents, if one KWh is currently charged with 0.6352458 lei (with VAT), as of January 1 the new price will be 0.7987 (with VAT). In the case of Dobrogeans, if a KWh is currently charged with 0.6512513 lei (with VAT), as of January 1 the new price will be 0.7681 (with VAT). In other words, with a bill of 100 KWh, the people of Bucharest, Ilfov and Giurgiu will pay 14 lei more (73, instead of 59 lei), the people of Banat 16 lei more (80, instead of 64 lei), and Dobrogeans with 12 more lei (77, instead of 65 lei).

Consumers will be able to opt for one of the two offers, the universal service and the competitive one, until January 31, 2021.