This Thursday the public hearing is being held in which the Government, companies and users will debate what the new rate segmentation will be like, that is, who will be restricted from subsidies for electricity and gas rates and bottles.
The
Ministry of Energy
gave an idea of what it plans to do on its website, publishing
a list of what can lead the user to be excluded from subsidies.
These are the criteria that the Government could take into consideration to reject or exclude a consumer from electricity and gas subsidies:
One of the members of the cohabiting group is the owner of an
aircraft.
One of the members of the cohabiting group is the owner of a
luxury
boat or for recreational purposes.
He is the full owner of two or more
properties
.
You own at least one
car
less than 5 years old or two cars less than 10 years old.
You are the owner of at least one
luxury
or collection car regardless of the age it registers.
He is a holder of
prepaid medicine
not linked to employment in a dependency relationship (total or by referral).
It has more than
one departure to non-neighboring countries
in the last 5 years.
Belong to the
board of directors or be the owner of a
private company (IGJ).
You have
credit card consumption
greater than five Minimum Living and Mobile Wages (SMVM), which is equivalent to $780,000 (as of December 2023, the minimum wage was $156,000 and will rise to $180,000 in February and $202,800 in March).
Consumption would then be
900,000 in February and $1,014,000 in March.
Purchased
foreign currency
in at least one of the last three months.
Has
consumption in virtual wallets
greater than five minimum salaries ($1,014,000 as of March)
It has mobile phone consumption greater than 25% of the SMVM, that is, $39,000 in December, $45,000 in February and $50,700 in March).
What is the "energy basket"
In addition to these segmentation criteria, the definition of a
Basic Energy Basket
will also be considered at the hearing .
The Secretary of Energy,
Eduardo Rodríguez Chirillo
, had anticipated that
the subsidies would only go to those who spend more than 10% of their income on paying for energy
, with coverage of the differential on that percentage.
However, the application of
the Basic Energy Basket (CBE) will also limit the amounts
.
The controller of the National Gas Regulatory Entity (Enargas),
Carlos Casares
, who is one of Rodríguez Chirillo's most trusted technicians, with extensive experience in the gas sector, designed together with experts in gas and electrical energy a scheme in which
The maximum consumption volumes are established according to the bio-environmental zones
and the number of people living in each home.
For example: a
household with 1 or 2 people in the City of Buenos Aires
(temperate-warm zone, number 3) that is a
Metrogas
user and its category is R2-1 usually has its maximum consumption in
July
, and the
limit to be subsidized It would be 128 m3 of natural gas
that month.
Another example: a home in
Tierra del Fuego
(very cold zone, number 6) with 1 or 2 people is a user of
Camuzzi Gas del Sur
with category R2-3 also registers its peak demand in July, with a
subsidized limit of 595 m3 that month
.
But as detected by the newspaper
Río Negro
,
the maximum gas volume established by the Nation is almost 65% below the real average
of a home in the southernmost province of the country, while there are other notable differences between the future ceiling and average consumption in other cold regions.
This
could open a new front of discussion
with the Patagonian governors soon.
Meanwhile,
in electrical energy the limits will also be considerably lower
.
Since October 2022, a ceiling of 400 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per month was established for the middle class - Level 3 of segmentation, which
will now be between 100
and
200 kWh
in almost the entire country and all year round, with exception of the very warm zone in some northern provinces.
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