The National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) explains which categories of persons must submit a declaration of their own responsibility to the supplier in order to benefit from the capped price for electricity, noting that in the case of domestic end-users with a single point of consumption, they automatically benefit from the capped price, in which he falls into.

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The law establishing the new maximum electricity prices, which will apply from January 1, 2023 to March 31, 2025, was announced on Tuesday by President Klaus Iohannis and published in the Official Gazette.

On Wednesday, ANRE provided an explanation, indicating that for approximately 5 million residential consumers, the maximum final price charged is 0.68 lei/kWh, including VAT, and applies to the following categories of consumers:

• monthly consumption from 0 to 100 kWh inclusive;
• who uses devices, equipment or medical equipment necessary for treatment, based on a request and a self-declaration; the limited final invoice price is applied from the first day of the month following the month in which the specified documents were submitted;
• who have at least 3 dependent children under the age of 18, respectively 26 years old, if they are studying according to the form of education, on the basis of an application and declaration under their own responsibility; the limited final invoice price is applied from the first day of the month following the month in which the specified documents were submitted;
• single-parent families who have at least one dependent child under the age of 18, respectively 26 years old according to the form of education by application and self-responsible declaration; the limited final invoice price is applied from the first day of the month following the month in which the specified documents were submitted;
• during approx. 2.8 million household customers, the maximum final billed price is 0.80 lei/kWh, including VAT, for monthly consumption from 100.01 to 255 kWh; electricity consumption from 255 to 300 kWh/month is billed at a maximum price of 1.3 lei/kWh, including VAT;
• if the consumption exceeds 300 kWh/month, the full consumption is billed at a maximum of 1.3 lei/kWh, including VAT, from this maximum benefit of approx. 0.8 million household consumers.
• In the case of domestic final consumers, the capped final price applies only to places of consumption at home/residence, namely:
• the final household consumer with a single point of consumption automatically benefits from the limited price to which he falls according to his monthly consumption,
• a residential final consumer who has both a residential address and a home address can benefit from a capped price that he falls under according to his monthly consumption, either at his home address or at his residential address, based on the declaration submitted to the electricity supplier, regarding the fact that it does not benefit from a price cap for another place of consumption.

Who must provide an affidavit for limiting the price of electricity

NARE emphasizes that only certain categories should submit an application and declaration under their own responsibility to the supplier:

• domestic end-users who use devices, devices or medical equipment necessary for treatment,
• who have at least 3 dependent children under the age of 18, corresponding to 26 years of education,
• single-parent families with at least one dependent child under the age of 18, corresponding to 26 years of education.
• domestic end-users with multiple places of consumption who want to benefit from a limited price for a place of consumption other than their place of residence/accommodation
• the rest of the household customers benefit from the price cap automatically, without any other formalities.

Sample affidavit for limiting the price of electricity

Taking into account the introduced new categories of end consumers who can benefit from a limited price after submitting an application and declaration to the electricity supplier, NARE has developed an application model and a declaration model under its own responsibility.

Both applications and declarations of personal responsibility can be submitted to electricity suppliers in physical or electronic form. The models can be downloaded from the ANRE website www.anre.ro.

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