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While insisting on the request that those who want to maintain the electricity and gas tariff concessions complete the form and at the same time evaluate the extension of the registration terms, the Government has communicated when the new tariff will be ready and when they will begin to pay bills to be paid with an increase. .
He was Secretary of Energy, Dario Martinezthat during an interview with the C5N channel announced that, as expected, the government will have a new tariff table from August and will implement the increases the following month.
“The tariff will be ready from August and the increases will arrive in September distributed three times, “said Martínez.
The official said so far there are more than 900,000 people registered to keep the subsidies: “It is a form with a lot of questions and it will not only be used for the energy issue, but for other issues,” he stressed.
The new rates will arrive in September.
Martínez was emphatic in stressing the importance of “everyone signing up to continue receiving subsidies for electricity and gas.”
Furthermore, he reiterated itthe rate increase will be equal to only 80% of the salary variation cost (CVS) for all sectors and 40% of the CVS for those who receive the social rate “.
He also stressed that subsidies are “a great effort in a world where there is an international energy crisis” and are, moreover, “a great tool that comes at a time when the world is experiencing a price-based energy madness. “.
As an example, the energy portfolio manager said: “A year ago for liquefied natural gas (LNG), last year we paid $ 8.50 per million BTU, and in the last tender we decided to not to carry out, the price was $ 51 per million BTU.
The official stressed that “Argentina has made very good decisions not to have to go down in these prices”, and continued: “Since we launched the Gas.Ar Plan, we have saved more than 4,000 million dollars”.
Form to maintain the facilitation of utilities.
Meanwhile, it has estimated that the cost of gas imports will reach 7,000 million dollars in the course of the year against 2,000 million dollars the previous year. “If the Gas.Ar plan had not existed, we would have cost over 11,000 million dollars,” she stressed.
“We broke all energy demand records, in the summer we broke the historical peak and also in the winter we broke all the fuel demand records, we are in a country that requires energy from us month after month,” said Martínez.
He later stated that “the highest income decile in Argentina will be against the full cost of energyit will not continue to be subsidized and this is the first phase of the tariff segmentation “.
And he concluded: “Today we consume LNG while the pipeline is being built, but when the pipeline is connected, the price of energy will drop because instead of paying these current exorbitant prices, the price of local gas will go to $ 3.50. , which is the average price of Gas.Ar “.
Source: Clarin
