K. Skrekas: SYRIZA’s work is the adjustment clause and the mathematical formula

The adjustment clause was at the forefront of the parliamentary “controversy” between the Minister of Environment and Energy Costas Skrekas and two SYRIZA MPs who have served in the ministry, Panos Skourletis and Socrates Famellos.

The opposition was preceded by several opposition MPs who accused the government of “hiding the adjustment clause in the floating tariffs” with the amendment it has tabled in Parliament, when Environment and Energy Minister Costas Skrekas intervened.

“The adjustment clause, whether you like it or not, is being abolished,” Mr Skrekas said, referring to the providers’ obligation to report the charge price for the following month. “That way, all consumers who have fluctuating tariffs will really and transparently know what the energy bill they will have to pay,” he said. “Right now, it is difficult for consumers to know the charge in advance, because there is a mathematical formula that adjusts the electricity charge at all times,” Skrekas said. type that existed in your day, is the adjustment clause that existed and worked for five years, on your days, which we are abolishing now, and which does not allow households to understand what energy they are paying for. We come and with absolute transparency, we let consumers know how much energy costs, they will know what is the subsidy from the state, from the Energy Transition Fund, which exceeds 50% of the total bill. at the moment, how much do they really pay for energy “.

This, the minister also said, will be possible through the mechanism approved by the European Energy Commission and the European Competition Commission, “in record time”. “Greece has got an exception and has the best mechanism for the recovery of surplus revenues and profits, in the production part. increase in households to small and medium-sized businesses and farmers “, said the Minister of Environment and Energy, adding that” Greece is the first, among the 27 Member States, in electricity subsidies, as a percentage of the country’s GDP “.

Earlier, Panos Skourletis said that “the adjustment clause – which Mr. Georgiadis said existed to protect businesses – has an abusive implementation dimension, because companies took no risks and passed the cost on to final consumption.” The adjustment clause, continued Mr. Skourletis, “for which the president of SYRIZA rightly said that it has the signature and the name Mitsotaki, instead of abolishing it and intervening in the mechanism itself, you come and cover it. You incorporate it in the initial “This is a monument to the mockery and deception of the Greek people.”

But also the parliamentary representative of SYRIZA, Socrates Famellos, urged the minister and the government to understand that “we do not live in the country of lotus eaters”. The adjustment clause is the Mitsotakis hike. 2021. No adjustment clause was ever applied to the SYRIZA government at PPC “, said Mr. Famellos, adding that” the adjustment clause which was the vehicle for the transfer of notoriety, which the government allowed, now comes to admit that it was predatory and for that But it hides it in the fluctuating price, which does not depend on a difficult formula at all, but will arise at the will of each company and will be sought by consumers – who do not all have access to digital tools – prices, to change every month. company”. He cited consumer organizations as warning that “there will be no objective dependence on price formation, and it will be entirely at the will of the companies”. The SYRIZA parliamentary representative also noted that the head of RAE “now exposes the government” to add: “The lies are over. We are no longer in the country where Mitsotakis is in command. The lies are over. The government hours are over. “Elections are approaching and the issue will be Mitsotakis, because you are threatening the survival of society and the economy.”

“Indeed, we do not live in the country of lotus eaters. SYRIZA should not say that”, the Minister of Environment and Energy commented and added: “Yesterday we completed 7 years, since the banks closed. Fortunately you ruled for 5 years, and he knows The Greek people, what did you do? So we have evidence of how you governed: adjustment clause, April 11, 2019, SYRIZA government. Mr. Tsipras, when RAE sent a letter to the energy suppliers in order to adequately document the reason and methodology for activating the system limit value clause, for household, small, commercial and agricultural tariffs! It was the text sent by RAE, in your days , to the electricity providers, because they had applied the adjustment clause.You say that this was not done at PPC.Of course! gets 50% of the energy it produced, below cost with energy auctions at 20 and 30 euros per MW, at a cost of 60%. PPC came in and the private suppliers, that is, the ones you now call cartels, bought from PPC when it sold the electricity it produced below cost, so that they could compete with it! And you come here and talk? And aren’t you ashamed? PPC wrote 900 million euros in 2018 and 1.5 million euros in 2019! And are you talking? Aren’t you a little ashamed? ”

The Minister of Environment called on SYRIZA to answer why, since it disagrees with the adjustment clause, it does not submit an amendment for its abolition. “You have tabled amendments on various issues here. Why not table an amendment to remove the adjustment clause. If you do not like the ‘Mitsotaki clause’, why do not you table an amendment to remove it? Stop making fun of people!” He said. Costas Skrekas.

Source: AMPE