BOTAŞ has published a tariff table for November. According to the table, electricity generation plants and industry tariffs were increased by nearly 50%. This huge hike will soon affect us consumers badly.
The hike news that has been coming one after another in the last few days does not seem to stop yet. The last item to be added to the list of hikes was natural gas. Petroleum Transport Inc. with Pipelines, published the tariff table for November on its website. According to this table, the sales price applied by BOTAŞ to gas distribution companies for residential consumers remained at the current tariff (1,488 TL for 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas).
The same was not true for industrial subscribers. Industry subscribers The price of the current tariff is according to the month of October. increased by 48.40% and increased to 3,482 TL for 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas. power generation plants if it is the 1,000 cubic meter natural gas tariff it uses up 46.82% It was 4,000 TL. BOTAŞ had brought a 15% hike to the same tariffs for natural gas just last month.
Increased costs due to the hike:
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In its statement, BOTAŞ also stated the reason for the increase in the tariffs of industrial and power generation plants. Accordingly, the due to rising costs took place. Although there is no change in the natural gas tariff used in the houses, the increase made to the industry and electricity producers will indirectly be reflected to us, the residential consumers. So how?
Electricity producers may bill higher due to natural gas hike
This increase in natural gas will also be presented to us by electricity producers and other sectors as ‘increasing costs’ on the grounds of BOTAŞ’s hike. Because the rising gas prices, will also increase the cost of electricity or any generation. As the cost increases, the unit price of the products will naturally increase as well. The first concrete example of this is probably in the coming period. on electricity bills We’ll see.