By Andrea Hargraves 
In a June 15 statement, the regulator indicated that it has approved domestic consumers who remain in the regulated market, or who, even if they are in the free market, have chosen an offsetting tariff that lowers selling prices to end customers. Normal Voltage (BTN) is “unchanged” in July, compared to June. According to ERSE, this universe had 969,000 customers, which accounted for 6.7% of total consumption in April.
And according to ERSE, “Compared to the average price of 2022, consumers notice, in 2023, an increase of 1.0% in the final selling price,” noting that this increase is less than previously announced for this year, amounting to 3.3%, due to the reduction in customs duties on Sales to end customers observed in April.
According to ERSE, prices are for a couple without children (3.45 kva [quilovoltampere]consumption of 1900 kWh / year [quilowatts-hora]) at 36.62 euros, and for a couple with two children (energy 6.9 kVA, consumption 5000 kWh / year) at 92.43 euros.
Consumers with a social tariff “continue to benefit from a 33.8% discount on the sales tariff for end customers, as determined by order of the responsible government member for the energy district.”
The regulator also noted that for the Azores autonomous region, BTN customers will see a 1.9% drop in prices, and in Madeira, the price will drop by 2.2%.
ERSE, which had already unveiled the proposal on April 28, said that “the current exceptional tariff situation aims to adapt energy tariffs and tariffs for network access to current market conditions,” resulting precisely, “from updating the costs of public economic interest (CIEG) associated with production of electricity, the benefit of which will be less tariffs for access to the networks than initially estimated “for this year.