2024-05-12 08:36:44
The role of NEK as a public provider, with one change of the date from June 30, 2024 to June 30, 2025 in the law, is preserved. Household prices will be determined in the previous way, by KEVR and not by the government. This was stated on NOVA by the energy expert and former Deputy Minister of Energy Elenko Bozhkov.
Even while they were introducing the texts for the liberalization of the electricity market, deputies from the energy commission said that they were not good, but the law was being changed in order to open the money for the second payment under the recovery plan. Now ESO will also be helped to regulate overproductions, as the utilities still cannot, because they have not digitized their systems and it is not possible to automatically limit overproductions from RES, he explained.
The problem remained with how to define the energy poor and energy vulnerable. It is not clear what the criterion will be. According to one methodology, there are about 1.8 million people who are energy poor, and according to that of the NSI, there are 2.8 million people. It is not clear which institution will deal with this information, who will maintain this platform, who will identify them, commented Bozhkov.
He explained that the introduction of additional tariffs to ease domestic consumers is also delayed – weekend prices, with advance payment, the abolition of the day and night tariffs, and the latter is already much more expensive.
With the delay, the creation and use of citizens’ energy communities cannot be implemented, the expert said.