Power consumption charged by the hour

A caller complaint class for energy volition beryllium introduced wrong the twelvemonth that volition complaint usage by businesses successful existent time, each 15 minutes, affording them the accidental to trim their vigor costs.

This new, “dynamic” benignant of invoicing volition let consumers, arsenic acold arsenic possible, to transportation their depletion to low-cost hours, which is usually lunchtime, erstwhile the output of photovoltaics peak.

The Environment and Energy Ministry, successful collaboration with vigor regulator RAAEY and vigor providers, is presently preparing the model for these dynamic invoices, which will, however, permission retired home consumers. This is due to the fact that a prerequisite for real-time kilowatt-hour measuring and billing is the installation of astute meters, which has been a strategical task of the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (DEDDIE) for astatine slightest 10 years.

In the archetypal phase, the flexibility of dynamic invoices – signified by orangish nether the caller color-coded strategy – volition beryllium utilized by mean voltage and debased voltage businesses beneath 25 volt amps, specified arsenic nonrecreational workshops, hairdressers, bakeries, confectioneries, etc, arsenic good arsenic nationalist buildings with ample consumption.

According to the information presented connected Friday by RAAEY, different 50,000 astute meters volition beryllium added to the existing 600,000 by the extremity of the year. DEDDIE is readying the installation of different 300,000 specified meters successful 2025. 

For the immoderate 7 cardinal household consumers, the roadworthy to utilizing dynamic invoices volition unfastened gradually and beryllium completed astatine the extremity of the decade. With the installation of astute meters, household consumers, alert from the erstwhile time of the fluctuation of prices successful the wholesale market, volition beryllium capable to program the usage of energy-intensive electrical appliances (washing machines, ovens, irons, etc) astatine the times erstwhile the terms is lower.

This presupposes, successful summation to the astute meters, the usage of astute devices that tin beryllium remotely operated. Discussions are besides nether mode concerning a subsidy programme for replacing household appliances with “smart” ones to enactment the savings efforts of households.

The Environment and Energy Ministry’s extremity is to implicit the regulatory model for these invoices, which volition beryllium addressed to businesses, by the extremity of October.

To this end, RAAEY has organized 2 consecutive meetings with suppliers successful the coming week to find the sorts of invoices that volition beryllium made disposable to the market.