Electricity bill, risk of stinging for families: here is an increase

If the electricity bill increases by 40%, the sting for Italian families is close to 250 euros per year. This is the calculation of the National Consumers Union after the words of the Minister of Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani. “Last quarter the electricity bill increased by 20%, this quarter it increased by 40”, said Cingolani speaking at the conference of Cgil Liguria ‘What development for the future of Liguria’. “An increase of this magnitude, if it were really confirmed, would be lethal for families and businesses. For a typical family it would be equivalent to 247 euros on an annual basis,” says Marco Vignola, head of the energy sector of the National Consumers Union. “Such an astronomical increase would be a serious brake on the economic recovery, raising the costs of businesses and weighing heavily on the pockets of families, with deleterious effects on the restart of consumption” he continues. “Government and Parliament must in any case remedy immediately, deciding to allocate the proceeds from market auctions of CO2 emission permits for the lowering of bills, eliminating the system charges that are now outdated, such as those for the safety of nuclear power plants or the tariff concessions recognized for the railway sector, shifting to general taxation the others, such as incentives for renewable sources, which now instead end up on the bill “, concludes Vignola. In recent days, based on Istat data, the Codacons alarm on the energy bill,” which in October could suffer maxi -increases due to the increase in the prices of raw materials, with a higher cost of energy equal to over +200 euros per family on an annual basis ua “.