These are difficult times for Italian businesses, which will face new price increases in the year that has just started. Electricity and gas bills in 2025 could cost the entire Italian business system 13.7 billion euros more than in 2024, an increase of 19.2%. In total, total spending should reach 85.2 billion: 65.3 of this […]
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Electricity bills, end of the protected market is postponed: everything postponed until July 2024
Good news for Italian consumers. Arera, «in accordance with the provisions of the latest energy decree 181/23, to guarantee a coherent conduct of the process of ‘end of protection’ for non-vulnerable domestic electricity customers», announces that it has set July 1, 2024 (in relation to (scheduled for April 1) activation date of the Gradual Protection […]
Interview Electricity and gas bills, everything you need to know for the transition to a free market ARTE spokesman Diego Pellegrino explains to Today.it the opportunities of the change that will cover millions of Italian families in 2024. “Terrorism happened for no reason: The free market is an opportunity, not a risk”
The greater protection regime for electricity and gas bills known as the protected market is now coming to an end. With the new year, all domestic customers will have to switch to the free market, except for some protected categories: about four million “vulnerable” families, who will not be forced to switch regimes, at least […]
Electricity and gas, without extending the price fixed on the invoice
A few days after the final approval in Parliament of the decree approved last September, the Council of Ministers launched a new Legislative Decree on Energy. Advance renewable energy and the decarbonization of gas and energy-intensive companies. Advances in supply, with a rule that unblocks the Gioia Tauro and Porto Empedocle regasifiers. There is no […]
Reduce the Rai license fee, how do electricity bills (really) change?
In the Meloni government’s newly launched economic manoeuvre, there is also room to cut the Rai license fee, one of the most hated taxes by Italians, which will drop from 90 euros to 70 euros next year. By Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini: ”There is a first intervention on the Rai license fee that will be […]
There comes an extra bonus for heating (but this will not be available to everyone)
Discounts and bonuses to combat increasingly expensive bills. In the “energy” package launched by the Council of Ministers on Monday, September 25, in addition to the extension of social bonuses for electricity and natural gas, there is also an extra contribution to be paid to 4 million families in economic difficulties. You already get the […]
The end of the protected electricity and gas market: What will change in bills in a few months?
The countdown has begun. Users benefiting from the tariffs of the protected electricity and gas market, where prices are determined by Arera (the energy, grid and environment regulatory authority), will soon have to switch to the free market. The transition is set for January 10, 2024 and will come into force in January for domestic […]
Accounts, a nightmare for Italians: an increase of 1,625 euros in ten years
Mind-blowing numbers, which represent a nightmare for Italian families. In 10 years, the average annual expenditure of Italians on electricity, gas, water and waste tariffs increased globally by +68.7%, an increase in expenditure equal to 1,625 euros per family, with electricity prices that, compared to 2012, recorded a record +240% increase. The study is from […]
Menudo founder is under investigation in Los Angeles for alleged sexual assault
Edgardo Díaz, founder of the Puerto Rican band Menudo, is being investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). allegations of assault against a former member of the group in the 1980s, sources confirmed to the newspaper Los Angeles Times. The research focuses on an attack is said to have taken place at the Biltmore […]
Decree of bills, green light on CDM: reduction of VAT on gas, social bonus and tax credit
At the meeting of the Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the Minister of Economy and Finance Giancarlo Giorgetti, the decree was approved with measures to support families and companies against high bills and interventions in favor of the health sector in a total amount of resources allocated in the provision worth 4.9 billion […]