Bills, the end of increased protection: towards annual savings of 110 euro with graduated protection
Arera President Stefano Besseghini. "We will make an assessment by the end of May in order to be able to give initial indications to sellers. On the table is the proposal to raise the component covering marketing costs to 39 euro".
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Key points
- The economic conditions of the new service
- Savings of EUR 110 per year in the transitional mechanism
- In the bill soon the names of the providers of graduated protection
- Arera's moral suasion
- The chapter of the vulnerable
- For the vulnerability service auction in the first quarter of 2025
- The best defence for consumers: a few clear concepts
- The need for step-by-step communication
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By the end of May there will be more details on what the economic conditions of the graduated protection service will be. Charting the course, with an eye on the bills of the 3.9 million non-vulnerable customers still in greater protection and who, in the absence of an explicit choice of a free market offer, will be automatically transferred to the transitional mechanism as of 1 July, is Arera chairman Stefano Besseghini, in this interview with Il Sole 24 Ore.com. "We will make an assessment at the end of May in order to be able to give initial indications to sellers and we will see whether the different auction zones have experienced different dynamics in terms of entry or exit from the protection service".
The economic conditions of the new service
.Besseghini recalls that the economic conditions of the Stg provide for two price components in addition to the regulated components that are the same for all offers. "A first part to cover energy supply costs and which will be derived from the average wholesale price of the previous month (the so-called Pun ex post) and another (the so-called gamma parameter) aimed at covering the so-called marketing costs and defined on the basis of the offers formulated by the operators. This value, deriving from a weighted average on the number of customers in protection in the different areas, will depend precisely on the situation that will be recorded in the month of June, but can be estimated today at around negative 73 euros, the result of the fierce competition that has characterised the auctions.
Savings of 110 euro per year in the transitional mechanism
.Since the analogous component of customers in protection is now worth about EUR 58, Besseghini continues, 'it is easy to estimate that between the customer in protection and the customer in gradual protection there will be a saving of about EUR 130. In fact, even this value should be taken with attention because, as already announced, in these very days we have put out for consultation the revision of this parameter in light of the changed conditions that will characterise the protection service, which will continue to play its role on a transitional basis for vulnerable customers only. The proposal,' specifies Besseghini, 'is to bring this value to 39 euro, so that the differential with Stg would be in the region of 110 euro'.
In the bill shortly the names of the providers of graduated protection
.In short, the mosaic of the new service is beginning to take shape. "From now until June, we will include in the bill the indication of the new provider of gradual protection, so as to allow customers to familiarise themselves with the operator who will take over, having won the reference area at auction," continues Besseghini, who also returns to the dynamics linked to the return to greater protection, which is still possible until the end of June and on which the president himself has been heard several times in Parliament in the wake of alleged delays by the operators of protection in facilitating the return to the service of customers already served on the free market. To make this process even easier, on Arera's website there is a simple service where, by entering your municipality, you can find the operator to whom you can send your request and how to do it.
Arera's moral suasion
."Arera carries out a constant activity of moral suasion, and on this issue we first intervened with a recommendation addressed to operators to ensure that they provide clear information and the fastest possible time for those requesting to return to greater protection. Then, in the past few weeks," continued Arera's number one, "we have made a further communication to make it even more explicit that the return to greater protection can be requested until 30 June and that the date of receipt of the customer's request through the channels, including telephone or telematic channels, indicated by the operator of greater protection is authentic. A request which, it is worth remembering, must be forwarded to the operator of the greater protection service in the municipality where the supply is located. To make this process even easier, on the Arera website there is a simple service in which, by entering your municipality, you can find the operator to whom you can send the request and how to do it.
