Electricity and gas bills, since October blow for families – The Messenger

countermand. After six consecutive quarters in decline in a year and a half from October comes the whammy on gas.
maxiaumento, is 5.4%, amounting to € 19 in the quarter for Italian families. Blame “market tensions related to expected seasonal increases of raw material,” but also because of the crisis Ukraine. The only consolation is that thanks to the reform which since last year has hooked Italian prices to those of the European market, and then attached to the bags Dutch family type in 2014 will have saved 84 euro compared to 1,257 euro of the total gas bill of all 2013

Yes, because, the bill was likely to be even more salty. With the old indexation to oil and long-term contracts, “the spending on gas would have been much higher,” notes the Authority for Electricity Gas. More content rising to the light (October-December 2014), the ‘quarterly increase is 1.7%. In this case the cost will be in more of only 2 Euros. Other than consolation.

In detail, the quarterly increase of the gas is mainly due to the rise in raw material wholesale (+ 6.4%). A chapter in which he recorded
 the effect of seasonality in consumption as well as the escalation of tensions between Russia and Ukraine that have led to a general increase in spot prices on the European hubs, with repercussions on prices at the end.

In addition, they have the increases in storage costs (+ 1.2%), for a total of 7.6%. Luckily, the overall increase was partially offset by the reduction dell’2,2% of the components of CPR and CCR to reschedule
 long-term contracts and procurement modalities decided by the Authority. Otherwise, the Italian families had to put up well over 20 euro more in the bill only for three months of gas.

 29 September 2014 17:46 – Last Updated: 18:27

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