The government postpones the increase in gas from October …

By resolution 521/2019
, the Ministry of Energy has decided to "postpone" the six-month adjustment of the tariff schedules for gas, which was scheduled for October 1st. The increase will be made far from the election date, only on January 1st.

The government has justified that increases for users "in the current macroeconomic circumstances can be generated adverse effects on the reactivation of consumption and economic activity in general ".

For this reason, it has decided that "the semi-annual adjustment of the transmission and distribution margins expected as of October 1, 2019, before 1 January 2020, the date on which the value corresponding to the previous available immediate update rate will be applied ".

The gas increase was planned in two parts. The first was 29% in April and the second was expected in October, but this will not be the case until early next year.

The resolution published in the Official Journal states that the national state can not "face compensation" to postpone the increase because "it implements a program of convergence towards the balanced budget".

That is why he proposes, to maintain "the economic and economic equation of license agreements", that companies be compensated by a "readjustment" of its obligations, essentially with regard to the planned mandatory investments.