Deputies from the Energy Commission freeze the liberalization of wholesale electricity for one year. According to the current law, it should have been from July 1 this year, but three draft laws - of the BSP, joint GERB-SDS and DPS, and ITN, provide for its postponement by one year. It was voted by a majority of 15 votes and will enter the plenary hall on Friday.
The first bill was introduced by the BSP deputies with the first signature of Cornelia Ninova, on March 21. On Wednesday, April 17, those of GERB-SDS and DPS and of ITN were also tabled in the parliament. All three are analogous and on second reading will probably be merged.
This means that on July 1, KEVR will again have to rule on the price of household electricity at regulated prices. The chairman of the energy regulator supported the delay, but said the decision should have been made in February as companies needed time to prepare price proposals. He predicts that the KEVR will probably have to decide how much electricity should cost for households not from July 1, but from August 1. There was such a precedent in 2015.
Dragomir Stoynev from BSP said that he was pleasantly surprised, me and other political forces have similar proposals. If months ago, only the opposition had concerns that the reform for the transition to a free wholesale market was not prepared and that chaos would ensue, now other political forces also recognize it. The adoption of wholesale liberalization was only adopted to service the recovery plan and the second payment under it.
Stoynev believes that the current cabinet does not have the capacity to deal with this reform, there are many question marks and the final suppliers are also coming, who are wondering where they will find free financial resources and increase the compensations for months. The "Security of the electric power system" fund and he had to check almost all the accounts of the users, which are 4.7 million
Mainly the MPs from BSP, GERB, DPS and ITN defended their projects. The main debates were between Dragomir Stoynev, Delyan Dobrev, Ramadan Atalay on the one hand, and Radoslav Rybarski from "We continue the change".