The “sun tax” for energy prosumers has been eliminated. The Ministry of Energy announces tariff reductions for consumers

The government adopted, on Thursday, the Ordinance for the amendment and completion of GEO 27/2022, which eliminates the sun tax for prosumers. This ordinance also updates the support scheme for all electricity and natural gas consumers. The Ministry of Energy stated that prices will drop for the next 12 months.

Changes were made to GEO 27 that will lead to a decrease in the price at which producers sell without being overtaxed from 450 lei/MWh to 400 lei/MWh for electricity, respectively from 150 lei/MWh to 120 lei/MWh for gas natural.

By amending GEO 27, the possibility of introducing the sun tax for prosumers is eliminated and the support scheme for electricity and natural gas consumers is continued.

Sebastian Burduja, Minister of Energy: “As we promised, we are maintaining the energy and gas price ceiling mechanism for another year, until March 31, 2025, so that the population, but also companies, as final consumers, remain protected against possible volatility from the energy and natural gas market, in the current conditions of global unpredictability.

At this moment, we have a market that has passed the troubled period and uncertainty. We have ensured and we want to ensure stability.

We are among the EU countries where prices have fallen below the ceiling thresholds and we most often see this in gas bills and electricity consumers with a consumption of more than 300 kWh/month.

I also kept my promise to eliminate the possibility of introducing the so-called sun tax, because we want the support of prosumers and a modern, decentralized, digitalized and decarbonized energy system.”

What the Minister of Energy does not say is that the Romanian state continues to pay the difference in price from the real price (one that is continuously decreasing) and up to the maximum allowed ceiling, from the state budget with only the suppliers unjustifiably profiting.

Officially, the Minister of Energy invokes the volatility of the market, in the sense in which he would theoretically want to prevent a possible price explosion. As the trend is downward, and a possible ceiling can be reintroduced at any time, if necessary, the arguments coming from the Ministry of Energy do not hold up at all, in fact the actors on the energy supply market are unjustifiably “subsidized”.