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Serbia, The year ahead brings electricity and gas price increases

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Just as this year has brought, the year ahead will bring new price increases, including electricity and gas. Consumer associations state that this will be a new shock for citizens. Energy experts say it is necessary, and note that it is important to help as wide a circle of energy-dangerous citizens as possible. It is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of them.

Next year, wallets will become even thinner. The price of electricity is going up by about 10 percent, gas by 11 percent, confirmed the Minister of Mining and Energy. In the Instagram announcement, it does not specify when, the assumption is already from the first day of 2023.

This means that for electricity alone, according to EPS calculations, for the average consumption of the household, the bill will be increased by about 300 dinars.

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Minister Tesi – there are also those who pay more for heating and electricity.

“The state will continue to subsidize the price of electricity, so the price of our electricity will be among the lowest in Europe. Gas in Serbia is currently among the cheapest for industry, and the 3rd most affordable in Europe for households”, stated Minister Dubravka Đedović .

Energy expert Željko Marković explains – the state compensates losses in business, which were large in the previous period.

“Srbijagas” produces little, and imported the energy product at a higher price and sold it at a lower price. “Elektroprivreda Srbije” also had lower prices than the market prices.

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“And plus, along with the import of very expensive electricity in the amount of ten to 15 percent, which was not enough to power our market, it also caused big losses”, said Marković.

The rise in electricity and gas prices will also affect the consumer basket, predicts the President of the Movement for Consumer Protection of Serbia, Petar Bogosavljević.

“Directly in terms of how much they participate in family budgets.” “Indirectly, what will be many times greater than the impact of the price of electricity and gas in the structure of consumer costs, is the increase in prices in the production sector”, said Bogosavljević.

In the past two weeks, the price of gas has increased three times on the global market, the minister notes.

“In the conditions of the world energy crisis, we have to adopt measures that will ensure a safe and continuous supply”, she says.

However, in the Movement for Consumer Protection, they believe that global events are not a justification and recall that officials claimed that supplies were made earlier at significantly lower prices.

But, despite those supplies, the prices have already been corrected – the last increase in the price of electricity of 6.5 percent was on September 1, gas in August in the amount of nine percent, N1 writes.

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