Electric bills with hits will be able to pay in 12 installments – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

The hits on the electric bill will be able to be made in 12 installments with monthly minimum payment of five euros. According to the Directive of the Energy Services Regulatory Authority (ERSE) which was published Wednesday in the Official Gazette, the application of new rules to billing adjustments for individual electricity customers intended to minimize any significant impact on budgets families.

                     

                         So whenever an actual reading will lead to adjustments to the amounts determined by the estimate by electricity traders, and provided that such arrangements raise the bill of a customer to a consumption equal to or higher than the average monthly consumption for the last six months, automatically enters march “one plurimensal plan regularization” of that amount.

This plan can only have a maximum of 12 installments, although the ERSE also contemplates that directive (dated 2013 but only became consecrated at the end of last year with the new regulatory framework for the electricity sector) “the possibility of according to customer’s will, the value regularization be paid in full in a single bill.”

If payment is split, the amount payable “will be the larger of two values”: or five euros per month, or “the monetary value corresponding to 25% of the average monthly consumption of six months immediately prior to the issue of settlement of invoice,” says the directive. The benefits should have identical values, although the latter may proceed to the final settlement (without exceeding, however, by 10% the value of the remaining).

The rules do not apply to “billing arrangements that arising from adjustment of amounts invoiced under fixed payment arrangements “, although these customers can also request a settlement plan benefits in general terms of the Regulation of Commercial Relations, note ERSE.

The entity led by Victor Santos stresses that harmonization of procedures for all traders “is particularly relevant to the consolidation of the market liberalization process” tram. The Directive ERSE shall enter into force on Thursday.