Approximately 3.4 million domestic consumers of natural gas have the right to renegotiate by July 1, 2020 the prices they will pay after liberalization, but, to date, only 17% of their current suppliers offer this possibility, is shown in an analysis conducted by the Intelligent Energy Association (AEI).

According to AEI’s centralized data, most of the suppliers, more than 80%, do not even inform their customers that they will move to a free market, where they have the opportunity to negotiate their gas price, according to Agerpres.

On the other hand, only about 5% of household consumers know that on July 1, 2020 they will enter the free gas market and an even smaller number of them (about 3%) are aware that the price will no longer be established ” by the state” and that they must renegotiate it together with their suppliers.

The AEI analysis, based on the data of the sites of the 35 gas suppliers that sell to domestic consumers in the regulated market, shows that, although we are 45 days before liberalization, the suppliers – mostly – do not inform their customers that they have the option to renegotiate their prices and do not even offer them new prices.

Specifically, the data processed so far by the Intelligent Energy Association shows that: 80% of current suppliers have not informed their household clients that they are going to be “liberalized”, through ads posted on their websites, while 83% of current suppliers have not made offers to domestic gas consumers for the period when the market will be liberalized.

In addition, current consumer offers are priced up to 55% or higher than prices in existing contracts, given that oil prices have fallen significantly amid the COVID-19 crisis.