Five Days / The principle of agreement reached yesterday between the PP and the PSOE on the reform of the Electricity Sector Law includes the adoption of a new model of financing of the social bond and strengthening the fight against energy poverty. The pact between the two political forces are supposed to include in the law as an “essential service” the provision to families in situation of vulnerability severe, which will prevent the power companies can make cuts to this group. To change this proposal, driven by the socialists, the PSOE will have to support that they are only the traders –and not the companies of the three sectors– electric charge of finance the social bond, a discount of 25% on the invoice that applies to c ertain groups, but that is not tied to the income level. The reform of the financing of the social bond has been required after a Supreme Court ruling that exempts groups of electric vertically integrated (those who develop the activities of generation, distribution and marketing) of the obligation to afford this discount, and forces them to return the 500 million euros have been provided from 2014. To get ahead, the agreement between PP and PSOE, 90% of the amount that represents the bonus will be paid only for the five large power companies of Unesa.
Although the data of the Ministry of Energy, estimated at five million the number of poor energy that exist in Spain, the percentage of users covered by the social bond is only 20%. To this must be added that the design of this discount, remained in force for the past three governments, it is not suitable for the objective that seeks to –combat cases of need– given that its concession is not linked to income. Since the Government itself has recognized that the problem of energy poverty is not well resolved in Spain, and they need formulas that will help to groups that lack truly of resources, something that wants to remedy with the prohibition of power cuts to vulnerable families.
The death of an elderly woman in Reus by a fire caused by a candle, after you cut the power supply, and whose situation is not detected by the social services, has been the trigger for the search of an effective solution to help users without resources. To the extent that últiman socialists and popular is a step forward in that sense and does not imply an outlay significant for the electric power sector, but must be articulated with enough control elements to ensure their effectiveness and prevent their fraudulent use . To do this probably will require the collaboration of municipalities and autonomous communities, as well as the reinforcement of the cooperation with the companies. The aim is that the law serves to combat poverty and not to protect fraud.
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