Electricity is more expensive in January out of the liberalised market – TVI24

from January the Portuguese who are in the regulated market of electricity will pay rates to be more expensive.

this is an increase of 1.2%. That is, for low voltage normal (BTN) usually described as the residential segment and micro-enterprises, as in the case of a monthly bill of about 47 euros, this increase means an increase of 57 cents for the final value.

“your reading allows us to conclude that the expression, in the family budgets, the increase in underlying rates of sale to the end users transient to 2017 is 0.57 euros, for an invoice monthly average of 46.7 euros,” the statement said of the Regulatory Entity of Energy Services (ERSE).

Already, “the consumers covered by the social tariffs for sale to final customers will have an increase in the monthly bill of electricity of eur 0.25, for an invoice monthly average of 20.4 euro”.

the rise in The price of electricity had already been proposed in October and has now been confirmed by the Entity.

The year 2017 will be the fifth year of the full term of the liberalized market of electricity, in the sense of remaining regulated tariffs will already be exclusively transitory nature.

According to the ERSE, “the liberalized market of electricity hit in October 2016, more than 4.7 million customers and represents more than 91% of the total consumption in Portugal, with the rates transitional lower and lower each time expression in the electric utility industry”.

During the year 2016, “the number of clients who have opted to be supplied under the regime of the market continued to increase at the expense of the number of those who remain in the rate transient, and this is the reality across all the segments, including the clients, BTN, and about 76% of consumption of this segment in the free market”.

Since January of this year have already entered the liberalized market more than 317 thousand new clients since October of last year the number of clients in free market rose by around 10%.

On the average, it is expected that in 2017 approximately 93% of the total consumption is subject to prices set in the market regime”, finds the Entity.