The Government is beginning to unravel the details of the new battery of measures to slow down the impact of the energy crisis on homes and businesses included in the More Energy Security Plan approved this week by the Council of Ministers and which must be sent to the European Commission. Pedro Sánchez specified on Thursday in the Congress of Deputies some of the initiatives included in the plan without too much detail and in the coming weeks the series of regulatory reforms will continue.
New measures that add to those adopted since the summer of 2021, a total of 85 rules in the energy field in just over a year, such as the successive reductions in taxes and regulated costs in electricity bills and gas, direct aid to households and businesses in all kinds of energy or initiatives to curb increases such as putting a limit on electricity sales contracts, meeting increases in the regulated gas rate or the exception Iberian applied in the electricity market.
The Government takes heart from the impact of all these measures already underway and those that will come soon, and boasts of saving 38,000 million euros to all consumers in relation to what they would have paid if they had not been adopted.
According to his estimates, the tax reductions, the cut in regulated costs and the effect of the Iberian mechanism of the gas cap, among other measures, have caused the household electricity bill to draw a 33% increase in the price that they would have paid without the measures; 23% in the case of SMEs and between 18% and 20% for the rest of the industrial groups.