Just at the beginning of this year the government gave 400m euros from the budget to reduce the deficit 600 million that had emerged in the special utility services account (Hypothesis), the so -called Elyko.
This is an account that manages consumer charges through their accounts for the increased cost of production in our country. The money of HGIs under normal circumstances is recovered by suppliers through the power supply account to residents of non -interconnected islands and to the beneficiaries of the CTO. Today, however, they receive them by 30%, because the deficit has swelled again.
It is noteworthy that a few months after the “injection”, the hole increased again in July to € 400 million and a solution is again sought.
The suppliers raised the issue by letter from the ESPEN Association to the RIS, where they identify two reasons for the derailment of the account. One is his bleeding to support the Energy Transition Fund, through which consumer subsidies were given in times of crisis. Second is the exemption of energy -efficient businesses from the payment of HGI during the same period.
The problem of ELIA is supposed to be resolved permanently by 2026, as charges for Crete will be eliminated as a result of the operation of the large interconnection with the mainland. So the question is what dimensions the “hole” will take until then and if the government will proceed with a new injection to limit it to the interim.