Rates: Companies did not receive segmentation data or new pricing

Electricity distributors -like Edesur and Edenor– They would receive information on Tuesday morning about customers who will lose their benefits. They are called “level 1”. Official sources had anticipated it Clarione on Monday.

However, this did not happen, as explained in the societies. Officials said several distributors already had data on households who would lose their benefits, those who would keep them partially or totally starting Monday. In several companies consulted they denied having that official communication.

The new seasonal energy price (PEST) was published in the Official Gazette on Tuesday morning. This is the amount that distributors will pay for tier 1 customers, that is, those who will not have subsidies. By Wednesday, this amount is expected to be known.

“The data must first be received by the regulatory bodies. Subsequently, these entities must prepare and publish the rate charts. And there, companies can only change their billing systems ”, clarified in the sector.

“It’s all too messy, the authorities don’t know how the system works and They believe that by publishing prices today, they apply tomorrow “, grumble in the industry. They believe that energy doesn’t know how it works.

In the case of Buenos Aires, the rate charts must be made by Enre. The new controller will be there Walter Martello, according to the executive branch. “He has not yet hired, and therefore does not have a signature,” they explained in a company.

Even if the government doesn’t say it, inside there are doubts as to whether the new rate charts will start on September 1stAs has been said.

“Each distributor issues thousands of tickets a day. If instead of doing it on September 1st, it does it the following days, there will be no problems ”, they relativize to the Government.

The government had promised to warn the companies which customers are level 2 (reduce registered income, withhold benefits) and level 3 (middle income, lose some benefits, but keep certain benefits) Tuesday. That didn’t happen either. “Perhaps it is in the hands of the regulatory bodies, and has not yet been communicated to us,” they expressed in the sector.

Uploading user data to corporate systems will not be fastaccording to businessmen in the industry.

The biggest complications occur in electrical ones. Enre regulates the activities of Buenos Aires distributors such as Edenor and Edesur. They are the only ones in that situation.

The rest of the provincial distributors are in the orbit of a provincial regulatory body. Everyone should implement increases in the cost of electricity paid by customers.

But it is not known how they will do it. Distributors in Neuquén, Entre Ríos, Córdoba and Santa Fe, for example, charge for their service (it is called “distribution added value”) values ​​much higher than those of Buenos Aires.

The wholesale cost, which the government will stop subsidizing in stages, represents between 17% and 26% of tickets in provinces such as Tucumán, Neuquén, Córdoba and Entre Ríos. Instead, it is more than 50% in Buenos Aires.

In Neuquén, 58% of the amount paid on the ticket is in cash from the provincial energy distributor. In Cordoba (an average bill is $ 4,900), more than half goes to EPEC, the distributor. In Salta the machine keeps 51% of the ticket. In Tucumán, 49%. In Santa Fe, 48%.