Law for the approval of the last Government Ordinance on price capping has been adopted, claims the Minister of Energy, Virgil Popescu, in a post on his official Facebook page.
“The measures by which we protect you apply until March 31, 2025! No citizen will pay more than 1.3 lei/kwh for electricity,” claims Popescu.
We reproduce, in the following, the post, in full:
“The Law on the approval of the Government’s Emergency Ordinance no. 119/2022 for the amendment and completion of the Government’s Emergency Ordinance no. 27/2022 regarding the measures applicable to final customers in the electricity and natural gas market during April 1, 2022- March 31, 2023, as well as for the modification and completion of some normative acts in the field of energy!
The measures by which we protect you apply until March 31, 2025! No citizen will pay more than 1.3 lei/kwh for electricity!
For home consumers:
▶️ a maximum of 0.68 lei/kWh, including VAT, for consumption between September 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022 by household customers whose average monthly consumption at the point of consumption in 2021 is between 0-100 kWh inclusively;
▶️ the final billed price capped by the electricity suppliers is of a maximum of 0.68 lei/kWh, including VAT, for consumption between January 1, 2023 and March 31, 2025 by the following categories of customers:
(i) household customers whose monthly consumption is between 0-100 kWh inclusively;
(ii) domestic customers who use medical devices, apparatus or equipment necessary to carry out treatments, based on a request and a declaration on their own responsibility; the final capped invoiced price is applied from the first day of the month following the one in which the mentioned documents were submitted;
(iii) household customers which have at least 3 children up to the age of 18, respectively 26 years old, if they follow a form of education, based on an application and a declaration on their own responsibility; the capped final invoiced price is applied from the first day of the month following the one in which the mentioned documents were submitted;
(iv) single-parent household customers, which have at least one dependent child up to the age of 18, respectively 26 years old if they follow a form of education, based on an application and a self-responsible declaration; the capped final invoiced price is applied from the first day of the month following the one in which the mentioned documents were submitted;
▶️ a maximum of 0.80 lei/kWh, including VAT, for consumption between September 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022 by household customers whose average monthly consumption at the place of consumption in 2021 was between 100.01 – 300 kWh for a monthly consumption- that is a maximum of 255 kWh;
▶️ a maximum of 0.80 lei/kWh, including VAT, for consumption between January 1, 2023 and March 31, 2025 by household customers whose monthly consumption at the place of consumption is between 100.01 and 255 kWh;
▶️ Electricity consumption between 255 and 300 kWh/month is billed at a maximum price of 1.3 lei kWh, including VAT
▶️ Where the consumption exceeds 300 kWh/month, the entire consumption is billed at a maximum price of 1.3 lei/kWh;
For SMEs and other entities:
A maximum of 1 leu/kWh, VAT included, for 85% of the monthly consumption made at the place of consumption, the difference in monthly electricity consumption to be invoiced at the maximum price of 1.3 lei/ kWh, including VAT, based on the declaration on personal responsibility of the legal representative for the following categories of consumers:
(i) small and medium-sized enterprises, as defined in Law no. 346/2004 on the stimulation of the establishment and development of small and medium-sized enterprises, with subsequent amendments and additions, hereinafter referred to as SMEs;
(ii) regional operators/operators defined in art. 2 letter g) and h) of the Community Public Utilities Services Law no. 51/2006, republished, with subsequent amendments and additions, which render/provide the public utility services provided for in art.1 paragraph (2) letters a), b), c) and h) of Law no. 51/2006, republished, with subsequent amendments and additions, as well as the Bucharest Metro Transport Company “Metrorex” – S.A. ; as well as airports.
(iii) economic operators in the field of the food industry, identified by CAEN code 10, as well as those in the field of agriculture and fishing, identified by CAEN code 01 and 03;
(iv) local public authorities and institutions, decentralized public services of ministries and other central bodies, companies and commercial companies of county, municipal or local interest, autonomous governments and all public and private entities that provide a public service, pursuant to the law, if they are established or organized at the level of communes, cities, municipalities, counties, the municipality of Bucharest and, as the case may be, at the level of administrative territorial subdivisions of municipalities or at the level of inter-community development associations, under the leadership, coordination, control and responsibility of local public administration authorities;
(v) national research and development institutes, as defined by Government Ordinance no. 57/2002 on scientific research and technological development, approved with amendments and additions by Law no. 324/2003 with subsequent amendments and additions.
A maximum of 1 leu/kWh, including VAT, for the full consumption of public and private hospitals defined according to Law no. 95/2006 regarding the reform in the field of health, republished, with subsequent amendments, of public and private educational units, defined according to the National Education Law no. 1/2011, with subsequent amendments and additions, as well as nurseries, public and private providers of social services provided in the Nomenclature of social services, approved by Government Decision no. 867/2015 for the approval of the Nomenclature of social services, as well as the framework regulations for the organization and operation of social services, with subsequent amendments and additions. The ceiling mentioned in this article also applies to situations where one of the previously mentioned entities is the final beneficiary of electricity consumption and/or to all buildings that were built and authorized for the purpose of hospitals;
A maximum of 1 leu/kWh, VAT included, for 85% of the monthly consumption, made at the place of consumption, for public institutions, other than those provided for in letter d), as well as for those belonging to the cults officially recognized in Romania, according to Law no. 489/2006 on religious freedom and the general regime of cults. The difference in monthly electricity consumption is invoiced at a maximum price of 1.3 lei kWh, including VAT;
NATURAL GAS:
During the period April 1, 2022-March 31, 2025, the final price invoiced by natural gas suppliers is of:
↗️ 0.31 kWh/month for domestic customers.
↗️ a maximum of 0.37 lei/kWh, VAT included, in the case of non-domestic customers whose annual consumption of natural gas achieved in the previous year at the place of consumption is no more than 50,000 MWh, as well as in the case of thermal energy producers;
↗️ starting from 1 January 2023, of the maximum price of 0.37 lei/kWh, including VAT, also benefits non-household customers within the industrial parks regulated by Law no. 186/2013 on the establishment and operation of industrial parks, with subsequent amendments and additions, as well as those within closed distribution systems defined according to Law no. 123/2012, with subsequent amendments and additions.”
