To Izquierda Unida de Totana, this change in the composition of the electricity tariff reflects the desire to ensure the great benefits of the five electricity market spread in our country enterprises, to the unstoppable decline in consumption as a result of a crisis that never ends.
Benefits will be provided by the whole population, but will have a particular impact on the families most affected by the crisis, exacerbating their energy poverty.
The Ministry of Industry indicates that this reweighting will not raise the bill, but a transfer between electrical consumers on behalf of those who consume more, especially families with children.
But the truth is that far too especially benefit consumers with greater purchasing power which does not have to worry about consumption at the expense of users with more trouble making ends meet as unemployed, retired or single parents, who try minimize their consumption to save.
Anyway, this rise will affect the poorest sectors of society.
United Left believes that this regulatory change, which has determined that more than half of the receipt of light (60%) is paid regardless of consumption, in addition to lacking any logic, is actually discourage energy saving, thus breaching European policies for sustainable development and combating climate change.
In this regard, the Government rejects the justification of a change in the structure of the electricity tariff of this caliber has decided to increase the contributions to the system of empty homes and second homes.
This objective can be easily achieved without penalizing the majority of consumers.
Consumer associations and trade unions have denounced the rise of fixed tranche in the electricity tariff.
Facua spokesman, Ruben Sanchez, has dismissed as "teasing" the explanations and the Ministry of Industry, according to the calculations of the association, the profile of the average user pays 75% more than ten years ago.
Izquierda Unida also considers that this is not an isolated event, but a new twist on the unjust distribution of the costs of the crisis in our country, in which the Government has clearly positioned for oligopoly firms Electrical and against the whole population.
