The Council of Ministers will approve this Tuesday the modification of energy bills for all customers with a contracted power of less than 15 kilowatts (KW), -a range that includes domestic and a wide variety of SMEs. In them, the marketing companies must include information on the average consumption of consumers who share the same postal code.
The Ministry for the Ecological Transition will regulate the format in which this comparison must appear on the invoices and the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) will establish the procedure for distributors to provide files with district consumption data to marketers .
The procedure will be similar to the one applied at the time to include the QR code in invoices that sends consumers to the CNMC's energy offer comparator. If so, the information will still take a few months to reach end customers. As happened with the information on the offers, in order to start them up, the CNMC must first request the data from the different marketers and process them.
“In addition, it must be taken into account that both the CNMC and the energy companies accumulate this year many duties pending from the regulation dictated by the Government and the delay in the implementation of so much new legislation is important on all fronts,” sources explain. of the sector.
Comparing energy consumption and efficiency with that of other similar homes in a neighborhood is a measure that companies like Endesa already implemented seven years ago, through its Infoenergía digital tool. The purpose is for customers to be more aware of their habits and learn to save.
This measure will be included in one of the three blocks in which the Ministry of Ecological Transition has structured the contingency plan agreed with the European Commission, which includes measures to carry out a voluntary reduction in electricity consumption of something less than 7%.
The modification of the invoice is one of the proposals with which we want to continue promoting energy saving and efficiency. A second block of measures will be those that encompass the commitment of the Spanish economy to the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies with aid to also encourage green gases and hydrogen, as a great future bet for the industry.
This section will house measures such as the expansion of the area by which renewable energy facilities can share their energy production, until now limited to 500 meters, to promote shared consumption and energy communities.
Regarding the specific measures to deal with the contingency of next winter, Teresa Ribera, explained that "the Spanish contingency is not a shortage, as is the case in Germany, but how to deal with the demands of the single European market in solidarity". That is to say, how to respond to the strong increase in the demand for electrical energy by Portugal and France without the cost of these exports, which have skyrocketed since the entry into force of the Iberian exception, having to be assumed only by the pockets of Spanish consumers.
On the other hand, it is also expected that the text that arrives this Tuesday at the council of ministers, includes a measure that allows neighborhood communities with community gas boilers to benefit from the limits on the cost of this energy that individuals already enjoy. , either allowing them to benefit from the regulated rate (TUR) or another of a similar amount.
The measures approved this Tuesday will join the first package of actions launched on August 1, which contemplated the adjustment of thermostats between 19 and 27 degrees and implemented turning off shop windows and buildings without activity after 10 p.m. and intended promote telecommuting. Some measures that the Government assured could save 5% of consumption of a total saving of 7%, until the end of 2023, according to Spain, the objective with which Spain committed itself to the European Commission.
