Tyrol’s black Chamber of Labor President Erwin Zangerl on Friday criticized the initiative proposal to limit electricity costs that was tabled in the National Council this week. The legal provisions contained therein are “cumbersome and misleadingly formulated,” he said in a broadcast. He feared that people without their own electricity meters could fall over for the promotion.
The application states that the subsidy “is granted to natural persons who are liable to pay for a metering point with withdrawal under an electricity supply contract”. The concrete meaning of this was not clear to Zangerl: “What happens to all those families who do not have an electricity contract themselves, but pay their energy costs via the landlord’s utility bill?”. He called for “clear and transparent explanations” in the law.Plan: effective from DecemberThe electricity cost brake is to be decided in the October plenum and take effect from December 1st. A maximum of 2,900 kWh per household metering point is subsidized as a basic requirement, which is around 80 percent of the average consumption of Austrian household customers. Above that, the market price must be paid. In this way, the coalition wants to provide an incentive to save electricity. A threshold of 10 cents per kilowatt hour is assumed, which roughly corresponds to the pre-crisis level. The upper threshold is 40 cents per kilowatt hour.
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