It should be noted that the standard focuses on the relationships and rates between Distributors, Subdistributors, Large Users (GU), and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Stations.
Likewise, the Current resolution temporarily approves a new rate of $1.85 per m³ for Subdistributors that use their facilities to supply gas to Large Users or CNG Stations, effective from its publication in the Official Gazette.
Key points
- The previous rate was $0.290512 per cubic meter.
- The new rate is $1.85 per cubic meter.
- The new rate is temporary and will be in effect until the comprehensive rate review of the natural gas sector is completed.
- The modification is due to the fact that the costs of the subdistributors have increased to a significantly lesser extent than the income linked to the tariff categories to which they mainly provide the distribution service (residential and General Service P).
Why was the CNG supply to stations cut off?
The affected industries are those that have interruptible gas contracts in cases of need and urgency and allow maintaining the gas supply to those who are priority consumers.
“The underlying objective basically seeks to privilege the gas available in the trunk pipes to supply priority demand: homes, businesses, hospitals, official organizations, schools”he explained Rodrigo Espinosa, spokesperson for Camuzzi Gas Pampeana, which supplies 269 CNG stations in the interior of the province of Buenos Aires and the province of La Pampa. Of that total, around 50% were affected, he added.
From MetroGasthe largest natural gas distributor in the country with 2.4 million customersamong which are service stations and industries, said that the cut is partial, “They are guaranteed a volume to operate and their interruptible volume is restricted.”
