A reader of the Intelligent Energy Association website pointed out an aspect that was blatantly missed in the analysis of the new energy price cap law: a clause inserted into the law that establishes that the cap applies to a single point of consumption, rather than a single point of consumption. only from January 1, 2023, but also retroactively for the last 4 months of 2022. Abnormal!!! – says Dumitru Kiselice, president of the Association

The electricity price cap law states that if there is an opportunity to get a capped price for a future period, if you have gone through some bureaucracy, the law does not give you any opportunity to benefit from a capped price for the past period.

“You’re stuck at the wall and need to pay more money back, even if you only averaged 95 kWh per month in 2021, even if you turned off all the lights and also averaged 91 kWh per month in 2022 , this law comes and makes you pay 90% more. It’s not normal!!!”, says Cizelice

An example presented to the Association: The consumer of electricity lives at the address (without specifying ownership or rent) at which he has established it in order to be able to enroll a child in a certain school, but lives in a different house where he lives. Where he actually lives and resides, consumed an average of 95 kWh of electricity in 2021. In the period from September 1, 2022 to September 19, 2022, the electricity consumption was 364 kWh, for which, before the publication of the new energy law, it was necessary to pay 247.52 lei, equivalent to the electricity consumed. According to the new law, it is necessary to pay 473.2 lei for this consumption made before the existence of the law, i.e. 92% more. Abnormal!!!

“We demand an urgent change of this law and the cancellation of incorrect articles that force Romanians to take more money out of their pockets, both for past and future electricity consumption, as well as for the fact that on the eve of the holidays, in the middle of winter with low temperatures, this law leads desperate people to long queues at suppliers’ cash registers,” says the president of the “Smart Energy” Association.

Dumitru Chisalita

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