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Comgás (São Paulo gas company) has adjusted the tariffs of piped gas to the consumer. The corrected amounts came into effect yesterday, when the readjustment, authorized by Arsesp (Regulatory Agency for Sanitation and Energy of the State of São Paulo), was published in the " Official Journal "of the State.
last year. The new amendment, however, was made on the basis of a 2012 regulator decision to recover the difference in value between the applied rates and the price paid for natural gas.
This recovery is provided for variation. product. According to Comgás, "the decision is exclusively related to the updating of the cost of natural gas, which reflects changes in the price of oil and the exchange rate"
. The percentages increase reach 1.8 million consumers and vary depending on the market segment and the volume of gas consumed. For residential consumption, the increase goes from 8.58% to 11.33% compared to the date of the last adjustment of May 2018.
The percentage exceeds the inflation calculated by the IPCA index ( National Broad Consumer Price Index). for the last year, 3.75%. A customer who consumes, for example, 5 cubic meters per month and paid R $ 28.03 on his monthly bill will pay R $ 30.43 (8.58% more).
For trades and industry, the average rate update was 14% and 32%, respectively.
Natural gas (NGV) rates applied to gas stations also increased from R $ 1.50 to R $ 2.10 per cubic meter (a peak of 40.11%).
In the note Comgás indicated that the measure did not affect the margins of the company.
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