Electricity supplier windfall earnings between August 2022 and the end of 2023, the period during which energy-crisis measures were implemented, are expected to reach roughly 200 million euros, RAAEY, the Regulatory Authority for Waste, Energy and Water, has estimated.
The exact sum cannot yet be finalized as a couple more factors still need to be taken into account.
Power utility PPC still needs to provide RAAEY with related figures concerning the final quarter of 2023, while distribution network operator DEDDIE/HEDNO must forward a “normalization coefficient” concerning megawatt-hour rates suppliers are charged each month based on declarations they submit to the energy exchange.
The bigger the normalization coefficient to be forwarded by DEDDIE/HEDNO to RAAEY, the lower the resulting windfall earnings will be.
Suppliers will need to make windfall-return payments over two instalments, the first of which will represent 60 percent of their respective amounts.
The sums to be received, it has been decided, will be allocated almost exclusively to partially servicing debt owed by municipal water supply and sewerage companies (DEYA) to power utility PPC.