"With an extraordinary intervention, deemed necessary due to the extremely serious conditions of the situation, the Arera limits the increase in electricity prices for families still under protection
and, while remaining at very high levels, avoids doubling. L 'exceptional intervention by the Authority for the fourth quarter of 2022, which is added to the Government's interventions, while not being able to limit the increases,
reduced the increase in the reference price for electricity to + 59% typical family in protection ".
"Wholesale gas prices,
which have reached abnormal levels in recent months due to the continuing war in Ukraine, concerns about the safety of gas pipelines and financial tensions,
would have led to an increase of about 100%" in electricity
, "
despite the Government's intervention with the Aid bis decree.
The Authority, in order to further limit price increases for households and businesses, has decided to exceptionally postpone the necessary recovery of the difference between the prices estimated for the last quarter and the real costs that have occurred, also characterized by increases "says Arera.
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The enormous growth in wholesale prices and their remaining at very high levels is reflected in the difference in expenditure compared to the previous year (in the last quarter, the sliding year corresponds to the calendar year).
In terms of final effects, for the electricity bill, the expenditure
for the typical household in 2022 (January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022) will be approximately € 1,322, compared to approximately € 632 in 2021
(the equivalent 12 months of the previous year ).
The Arera announces it.
Prime Minister Mario Draghi also intervenes on expensive energy.
"The energy crisis requires from Europe a response that allows to reduce costs for families and businesses, to limit the exceptional gains made by producers and importers, to avoid dangerous and unjustified distortions of the internal market and
to keep together once again Europe in the face of the emergency
".
"In the face of the common threats of our times, we cannot divide ourselves according to the space in our national budgets. In the next European Councils we must show ourselves compact, determined, in solidarity - just as we have been in supporting Ukraine".
This was declared by Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
"No member state can offer effective and long-term solutions on its own in the absence of a common strategy,
not even those that appear to be less financially vulnerable. This is why the hope is that common sense and common sense prevail in the European Energy Council of tomorrow. timeliness ".
The leader of FdI Giorgia Meloni writes in a note.
"
In the face of the epochal challenge of the energy crisis, an immediate response at a European level is needed to protect businesses and families.
No Member State can offer effective and long-term solutions on its own in the absence of a common strategy, not even those that appear less financially vulnerable.
For this reason, the hope is that common sense and timeliness prevail in the European Energy Council of tomorrow.
On this issue of vital importance for Italy, I trust in the unity of all political forces ".
"Prices never seen before" are on the way for Italians' electricity bills.
This was said in the morning by the director of the Energy Division of Arera, Massimo Ricci,
in view of the update of the electricity price
for the protected market, which was then communicated in the afternoon by the Authority.
"Regardless of the percentage increase, it is a percentage that is applied to already very high prices and therefore we arrive at prices never seen before", explains Ricci, speaking at the Italian Energy Summit of the Sole 24 Ore, underlining how "the prices of the next unfortunately, they will remind us that we are still living in an emergency phase ".
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