The Provincial Energy Company (EPE) warned this Tuesday that electricity bills may suffer increases of up to 65%, with greater emphasis on medium and low-income residential users, after a series of national decisions on energy matters.
The EPE attributed the increase to the decision of the central government to “move forward in modifying the subsidy scheme, limiting the maximum subsidized amounts” and also noted that there was an “update in the price of wholesale energy.”
The increases will take place within the framework of the measures implemented by the National Energy Secretariat, led by Eduardo Rodríguez Chirillo, through Resolutions No. 90/2024 and 92/2024, which were explained in detail by El Litoral.
The update of electricity prices, the Santa Fe distributor warned in a press release, began to run on June 1.
From the EPE, they added that to the decision of the national government to modify subsidies and apply new limits on electricity consumption, there is also an increase in the seasonal price of energy.
In Santa Fe, as the company announced this Tuesday, variations in billing will generate increases in rate tables of between 12% and 65%, depending on the type of user.
The average increase implied by the different variables is around 38.5%. But it will be low- and middle-income users who will suffer the biggest increases in electricity bills, of up to 65%; and those with greater purchasing power who do not receive subsidies, up to 16.5%.
To graph the increases, the Provincial Energy Company provided a example of a residential user with average consumption of 400 kWh. This will have an adjustment of 15.6% if it corresponds to Level 1; 34.5% if it falls within Level 2; and 50.8% if it is included in Level 3. This is always “due to the changes in the subsidized limits in two groups that, until today, received a greater subsidy from the national government,” the statement indicated.
Registration of access to subsidies
In this framework, the EPE called on users to “review the level at which they are registered within the Registry of Access to Energy Subsidies (Rase), with the aim of obtaining the national government subsidy for electricity and gas”.
See alsoNational subsidies: the Epe spreads the recategorization to mitigate rates “The Rase consists of a list of beneficiaries who have been included in Level 2 – low income – or in Level 3 – medium income – based on the sworn declarations presented by the applicants for the benefit,” the statement clarifies.
It is also detailed that “those who have not registered are automatically incorporated as Level 1”, which corresponds to the full rate without any type of subsidy on energy consumption.
“Those who are already registered in Rase do not need to do so again”remarked the EPE.
In turn, he reported that the enforcement authority “has ordered periodic cross-checking of information to promote better targeting of benefits, in compliance with existing provisions regarding the protection of personal data in accordance with Law 25,326.”
To process Rase registration, it was remembered that users must provide the information that appears on an EPE ticket, the user’s ID that appears on the invoice; the Cuil number of each member of the household over 18 years of age; pocket income of each household member over 18 years of age, and an email address.
