Consumption Limit Coming to Electricity: Those Who Exceed it Will Pay More

After the Cabinet Meeting held last week, President Erdoğan announced that the energy fund cut at the rate of 0.7% over the energy consumption amount included in the electricity bills and the TRT share taken at the rate of 2% over the active electricity energy cost. will be removed had explained. The law that will ensure this has been presented to the parliament today.

The law, which was submitted to the parliament by the AK Party, brought along a new regulation for electricity bills. The proposal also included a gradual system in electricity bills. With this regulation, a cheaper tariff is determined for electricity consumption equal to the average of the required needs of the households, while for the subscribers consuming more electricity in the same way. more expensive tariff will be determined.

Regulation imposes limits on electricity consumption

This regulation will be realized with the amendment made in the Electricity Market Law No. 6446 with the law proposal submitted to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. In Article 17 of the Law, “Separate tariffs may be determined by the Board in order to support subscriber groups or renewable energy sources according to consumer characteristics.” After the phrase ‘subscriber groups’ in the sentence, “different according to the amount of electrical energy consumption for these subscriber groups.” is added.

The aim is to increase efficiency:

In the justification of the article that will implement the relevant regulation, the cost-based tariff method, even if it is in the same subscriber group, Encouraging the efficient use of electrical energyand those who consume more in similar subscriber groups. bear the cost of excess consumption stated intended. It has been added that with this regulation, it is aimed to carry out a study for costs, to determine a level in accordance with the normal consumption amount and to reflect the additional costs arising from the increase in consumption to the same subscribers who consume above this level.

The upper limit will be determined, those who exceed the limit will face an invoice over the normal tariff:

With this authorization, it was learned that the Energy Market Regulatory Authority is expected to carry out a study according to consumers. In this study, the average electricity consumption of consumers will be determined and in the meantime, the use of a family will be determined. monthly averages of consumption such as television, refrigerator, iron will be taken into account.

As stated in the justification of the law along with the study, a certain upper limit of kilowatt-hours will be determined. Those who consume above this limit, above the regular rate will face an invoice.