The second electricity meter: a part of the Romanians, forced to install it. Bills will increase after installation

The second electricity meter: some Romanians will be forced to install it. Bills will increase after fitting.

The new meter must be installed at the gate of each prosumer and would increase the bills of all Romanians.

Approximately 200,000 such meters will be installed, and the expenses will reach 20 million EURO.

This money will be recovered from the bills of all subscribers.

This is because all the costs of installing the equipment will be covered by the distributors, who will later recover them by increasing the distribution rate on each invoice.

The association of prosumers claims, however, that this counter is useless, Antena 3 reports.

Second electricity meter: useless

“These meters are absolutely useless and constitute a free expense that will be borne by all consumers and consumers in Romania as a whole.

ANRE’s rights to regulate stop at the mine at the gate, it stops at the meter at the gate. It does not enter my private domain to install another switchboard, another electrical panel, another meter in my yard”, said the president of the Association of Prosumers, Dan Prîșan.

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Instead, the National Energy Regulatory Authority says the law must be respected and bills will rise very little.

“If we have 200,000 prosumers and 200,000 meters installed, taking into account that this tariff will be socialized in the cost, it will be socialized in the distribution tariff on the amortization rate being 10 years.

We will practically have a cost per megawatt-hour of 0.22 RON per year, so practically a cost that is imperceptible for the energy consumer”, said the president of ANRE, George Niculescu.