Greece’s Environment and Energy Minister Theodoros Skylakakis announced a series of new measures for the reduction of electricity rates while speaking at the Institute of Energy for Southeast Europe (IENE) conference on Tuesday, ANA reports.
“We are examining more aspects and charges in the bills in order to improve them, to make them more competitive,” he said while noting the measures already announced to tackle electricity theft, strategic bad payers, or the introduction of color-coded bills for different payment schemes.
Referring to the new framework coming into effect from January 1, 2024, with the mandatory uniform rate derived from a mathematical formula, he said that the ministry’s role is to protect the weakest parties, who are neither the producers nor the suppliers of electricity but the consumers, especially those who pay their bills. “We listen to the market but our position is to defend the consumer,” he noted.
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