ERSE – The Energy Services Regulatory Authority has already announced the rules that will regulate electricity tariffs from 2022. The regulator says it is not yet possible to predict the global impact on prices in light of the changes, but predicts that it will be less than one. new regulations bring savings to consumers, says Jornal de Negócios.
In the Tariff Regulation for 2022, ERSE proposes to introduce a new tariff option for access to grids at higher voltage levels – very high voltage (MAT), high voltage (AT) and medium voltage (MT). The goal is to be able to use the network more efficiently, taking advantage of separation between different time periods and geographic regions, and thus avoiding costs through new investments.
Joining this new option is voluntary, but if it were complete, the net benefit to the system would be € 50.1 million over a 23-year period, ERSE calculates. “Since the new tariff is optional, the net benefit to the system, which will be reflected in all consumers, will be greater the more consumers in MAT, AT and MT join,” explains regulator Negócios.
In a communiqué announcing the revision of tariff regulation, ERSE also proposed the application of tariffs for access to autonomous storage facilities, avoiding the double payment of costs of general economic interest (CIEG). “By assuming that the storage will represent additional transit of energy on the grid, the solution ensures that the storage continues to contribute to network costs while avoiding the burden on end users,” the regulator said in a statement for Negócios, explaining that “the decision foresees an impact that will generally be zero. “
The third measure outlined by the regulator is the removal of the transport tariff for producers, which will “affect the structure of prices paid by consumers in the energy and access component”, but which is expected to have “neutral effect on the final price paid”.
Changes in this market may or may not affect consumers. For now, according to a statement from regulator Negócios, companies in the free market have chosen not to reflect the increase in wholesale prices – which have already broken four records since the beginning of August – in their electricity bills, even though they do so. Don’t put off this hypothesis until next year. In the case of a regulated market, growth has already taken place, given that the deviation of wholesale prices from the calculated ones made it so in accordance with the regulation.
Regarding the remaining measures and the overall impact of the tariff regulation revision, ERSE says it will only be able to settle the calculations in mid-October, when it has more data.
