The final form of the Agreement with banking institutions regarding credit solutions through the factoring system, which will allow keeping a fair price for electricity and gas for Romanians and Romanian companies, will be approved “most likely next week”, announced on Monday the Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja.
He met with the energy suppliers, the representatives of the banking institutions involved in the supply scheme, but also with those of ANRE and the Ministry of Labor and Social Solidarity.
“Through the meeting that took place last week, the Ministry of Energy initiated a discussion framework that will facilitate a partnership between supply companies and financial-banking institutions to access financing at the lowest possible cost. We are discussing a factoring product, on based on tripartite conventions. The purpose of these meetings is to expand the possibility of crediting suppliers, within the scope of some factoring actions, and to agree an Agreement regarding the amounts owed by the Romanian state to energy operators in the context of GEO No. 27/2022. Following the joint meeting since today, bilateral discussions have taken place with each supplier and with each bank in order to find the most effective solutions and to facilitate the signing of this Agreement as quickly as possible. Most likely next week the final form of the Agreement will be agreed with the banking institutions. I have initiated these steps because I really want this Agreement to be signed. It represents the guarantee of a fair price for electricity and gas for Romanians and Romanian companies,” the Minister of Energy Sebastian Burduja said, according to Agerpres.
According to the quoted source, the Ministry of Energy, together with the Ministry of Labor and Social Solidarity, indirectly facilitates a correct payment of electricity and gas prices for domestic and non-domestic consumers.
In this context, the relevant ministry supports the maintenance of energy price compensation-ceiling schemes, through which more than 5 million households paid only 35 lei per bill.
The institution also mentions that “it created this connection between banks and energy suppliers to protect consumers and maintain low energy prices for Romanians and Romanian companies”.