(Finance) – Arera announced the value of the raw material for the Vulnerability Protection Service in the market gas for the month of October 2024 which is equal to 40.82 euros/MWh.
The component of the gas price covering the supply costs (CMEM,m), applied to customers in the vulnerability protection service, is updated monthly by the Authority based on monthly average price on the wholesale market Italian (the PSV day ahead) and published within the first 2 working days of the month following the reference month.
For the month of Octobertherefore, the gas reference price for the new typical customer, i.e. for a typical family with average gas consumption of 1,100 cubic meters per year, it is equal to 116.77 euro cents per cubic meter, up 5.3% on September.
The variation – explains ARERA – is due toincrease in wholesale priceswhich affects the Expenditure on raw materialsAnd
to the increase of some components of the expenditure for the transport and management of the meter.
The reference price is divided as follows: Expenditure for natural gas materials (46.59 euro cents equal to 39.90% of the total bill for the supply of natural gas and related activities; 6.15 euro cents equal to 5.27% of the total bill for retail sales detail); Cost for transport and management of the meter (28.03 euro cents equal to 24% of the total bill for distribution, metering, transport, distribution equalization and quality services); Expenditure on system charges (2.95 euro cents equal to 2.52% of the total bill for general system charges); THEtaxes equal to 33.05 euro cents equal to 28.31% of the total bill.