Arera reform: all the news on the new electricity and gas bill
The new bill will make its debut on 1 July 2025. Arera President Besseghini: a reform long and widely desired. New definitions of items will be introduced
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Less than a year to go until the debut of the new electricity and gas bill for Italians, which will start on 1 July 2025. It is the result of a lengthy consultation process initiated by the Authority for Energy, Networks and Environment, with companies, consumers and stakeholders, and introduces an organic revision of all the information on the bill with the aim of simplifying the contents and making consumption and costs of the energy bill more readable. But what will the new bill look like? Here are the main new features.
The structure of the new bill
.More generally, the new bill will consist of the same front page with the main general information, an 'energy receipt', to understand consumption and prices at a glance, and an offer box reminding of the conditions subscribed to in order to check their application. Sellers will have 12 months to adapt their systems to the sending of the new bill.
Besseghini: reform long and widely desired
"A reform long hoped for by many, which evolves the structure introduced in 2014 with Bill 2.0, aligning the information for everyone and making it even clearer and simpler, but above all giving relevance to the role of consumers, enabling them to check their consumption and energy efficiency choices and to easily compare their profile with market proposals," commented Arera president Stefano Besseghini,
The unified title page
.Let us look in more detail at the contents of the individual chapters, starting with the unified front page. This is the first side of the bill where sellers are required to report the amount to be paid and all essential information about the customer on the type of service he is supplied, the supply contract, billing and payments. It should, therefore, ensure maximum uniformity of the main offences so that users' bills are immediately comparable.
The energy receipt
.Instead, the energy receipt will show the overall energy cost in relation to the volumes consumed according to the quantity x price structure, divided into 'consumption share' and 'fixed share', plus the 'power share' for electricity, and further detailed by expenditure items (sales and 'network and charges'). VAT and excise duties, any bonuses, other items (interest on arrears, additional products and/or services, etc.) and the RAI fee will also be shown separately in this section.
