Electricity and gas contributions: those who have a social rate are added to the registry even if they are not registered

The incorporated Secretary of Energy provisionally to the Beneficiaries’ Register of the Energy Contribution Access Register (RASE), as Level 2 residential users (low income), to people who benefit from the social rate. It did so with provision 3/2022 of the Undersecretary for Energy Planning published in the Official Gazette.

Last Wednesday, Energy issued Resolution 631/2022, which allowed Energy Planning “to, if deemed meritorious, timely and convenient, provide for incorporation disbursement of beneficiaries of the social tariff and equivalent as beneficiaries of level 2 energy subsidies “.

To this end, the Undersecretariat has requested the authorities granting the services of each national, provincial and municipal jurisdiction to lists of beneficiaries programs designed to favor users with less ability to afford the payment of public electricity services, generally called social tariffs.

In this regard, he stressed that a technical report of the National Directorate for Scenarios and Evaluation of Energy Projects of the Undersecretariat “justifies the incorporation of the RASE into Level 2 – Lower Income for the beneficiaries of the Social Rate, and for the beneficiaries of other provincial programs.” which are intended to benefit those users with lower payment capacity.

“In compliance with the distributive equity criterion that governs the segmentation scheme, its provisional incorporation is considered meritorious, opportune and convenient”, concluded the Energy Planning Area.

In any case, he stressed that “the incorporation envisaged here is provisional and does not exempt residential users of the services from the obligation to register with the RASE and to keep this information updated as their situation changes, nor will it prevent them from verifying the correction of the level assigned or requested through crossroads of information “.

Appointments in ENRE and Enargas

On the other hand, the Official Gazette this Friday also formalized the appointments of Osvaldo Pitrau and Walter Martello as controllers of the national bodies for Gas Regulation (Enargas) and Electricity (ENRE), respectively with decrees 571/2022 and 572/2022.

So far Pitrau has held the position of general manager of Enargas, during the administration of Federico Bernal in front of the body.

The new controller of the Gas Regulatory Entity is a lawyer and professor at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and has been with the organization since 1993 when he joined the Legal Manager.

For its part, Martello was an ombudsman for the province of Buenos Aires between 2017 and 2022before which he was provincial deputy for Peronism from 2005 to 2013, and has come to occupy the second vice-presidency of the Chamber of Buenos Aires.

both now you can put your signature in the pending resolutions to complete the launch of the tariff segmentation which began on 1 September.

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