The ND voted to approve his amendment. Ministry of Environment and Energy which establishes a temporary mechanism for the return of part of the proceeds from electricity suppliers.

SYRIZA, KKE and MeRA25 voted against the amendment. Those present, PASOK-KINALL and Hellenic Solution voted.

“We envisage expanding the excess profit taxation mechanism in the supply sector as well,” said Environment and Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas, who justified the amendment by saying that Greece had created a mechanism for taxing excess profits in the manufacturing sector, which has so far brought in about 2.5 billion euros. that went back to electricity bills. “For the first time since the cancellation of the adjustment clause, we have required suppliers to announce the price of electricity for the following month every 20th day of the month. Since we have had very intense, and they remain very intense, changes in wholesale electricity prices, due, of course, to changes in natural gas prices, there is the possibility of creating windfalls, windfalls in the supply sector, as well, “said Mr. Skrekas .

“We calculate the fair retail price from the wholesale price – the actual wholesale price – we calculate what price the suppliers charge and if there is a difference between the fair price and the markup price, that is, is there a positive difference, we restore it in percentage terms to the original 60 % this year and we are keeping the remaining 40% to be offset by possible differences in the coming quarters,” the Environment and Energy Minister also said, adding: “We are closing the door on both manufacturers and suppliers to create surpluses, i.e. excess profits We collect all this money back and use it to pay household electricity bills and thus subsidize the bills while keeping prices affordable.”

“The government is preparing and covering windfall profits, and its calculations are detrimental to the public interest,” said SYRIZA MP Sokratis Famellos, and complained that “the government does nothing to prevent windfall profits, it supports dirty money because its only priority is to money to go into the coffers of the energy companies that are there today.”

PASOK-KINALL committee secretary Evangelia Lacoulis called the amendment an admission of failure. Why are you making this amendment? Isn’t that recognition you couldn’t get? Today you are making an amendment where you tell us that you are changing the way revenue is collected when we told you a ‘scalable retail price ceiling’,” MP PASOK said.

“The only answer you should have given from the start was to restrict retail. This is a clean, clear position that solves the problem from the very beginning,” PASOK parliamentary spokeswoman Nadia Giannakopoulou said.

“We are really laughing here,” commented MeRA25 parliamentary spokesman Kriton Arsenis and added: “Only Mr. Mytileneos and his companies, which own 7% of the energy, showed a 9-month profit of 300 million euros, and the RAE calculates the surplus on your behalf . profit from the common market up to 300 million euros. Truly, this is hypocrisy in relation to the people whom you have reduced to poverty in order to satisfy the insatiable appetite of fifteen business oligarchs.

“Next to the ‘basket of ridicule’, you make an adjustment for the excess revenue of suppliers, which will go to the Green Transition Fund. In other words, they will be returned to financing renewable energy business groups,” said KKE MP Diamanto Manolakou, and stressed that “it is not only the cause of the energy crisis and poverty that is not being addressed, which is liberalization, the stock market and a mixture of expensive energy through the use of domestic energy sources, implemented jointly by New Democracy and SYRIZA, but at the same time provides financing for energy companies in times of crisis through variable payments through electricity bills.

Source: APE/MEB