{"id":90093,"date":"2021-10-12T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/parliament-investigates-the-increase-of-energy-prices-90093.html"},"modified":"2024-02-19T08:58:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T06:58:19","slug":"parliament-investigates-the-increase-of-energy-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/today-in-the-news\/parliament-investigates-the-increase-of-energy-prices-id90093.html","title":{"rendered":"Parliament investigates the increase of energy prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><span style=font-size: 1em;>A special Parliament committee is investigating the reasons behind the price&#13;<br \/>\nhikes for natural gas and electricity. So far, a number of factors have been identified.&#13;<br \/>\nEurope as a whole is confronted with a surge of energy prices. An additional&#13;<br \/>\nexplanation for Romania is the full liberalization of the energy market starting&#13;<br \/>\nJuly 1. Energy providers took advantage of the situation, and 38 energy&#13;<br \/>\ncompanies broke the law in September, Claudiu Dolot, the head of the National Authority&#13;<br \/>\nfor Consumer Protection, told the committee. The most serious violations&#13;<br \/>\nincluded the failure to observe contract terms for the distribution of&#13;<br \/>\nelectricity, some of the distributors choosing to change the terms of the&#13;<br \/>\ncontract without informing consumers. On Monday, Romgaz executive director, Airstotel&#13;<br \/>\nJude, appeared before the committee, mentioning a natural gas deficit and the&#13;<br \/>\nincrease of consumption as some of the causes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=font-size: 1em;><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=font-size: 1em;><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>First of all, the low temperatures reported over January-April, 2021. For&#13;<br \/>\nthe first time, Romgaz extracted the entire quantity of natural gas stored in&#13;<br \/>\nunderground deposits in 2020. The second reason is overinflated consumption,&#13;<br \/>\nwhich increased exponentially compared to 2020, both due to post-pandemic economic&#13;<br \/>\ngrowth, and the need to store the necessary amount of natural gas in&#13;<br \/>\nunderground deposits for the 2021-2022 cold season.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Romgaz leadership gave assurances the company will be able to cover the&#13;<br \/>\nthermal energy input for those producers that have already signed contracts.&#13;<br \/>\nThe announcement comes amidst growing fears that winter is coming and natural&#13;<br \/>\ngas prices will explode, and that gas reserves could possibly deplete. The Unit&#13;<br \/>\n3 at Cernavod\u0103&#13;<br \/>\npower plant will be rendered operational in 2030, at which point Romgaz will be&#13;<br \/>\nable to cover 30% of the total energy input, Cosmin Ghi\u0163\u0103, executive director&#13;<br \/>\nof Nuclearelectrica also told the Parliament special committee.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>I&#13;<br \/>\nwould like to call on you and your colleagues who are part of European fora and&#13;<br \/>\nvarious political parties, to support nuclear energy as a possible solution,&#13;<br \/>\nalso given the current debate at the level of the European Commission regarding&#13;<br \/>\nthe inclusion of nuclear energy as a technology for producing sustainable&#13;<br \/>\nenergy. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In&#13;<br \/>\nBrussels, European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, said&#13;<br \/>\nthe Commission has decided to provide incentives to member states to cut back&#13;<br \/>\non energy prices and redistribute the profits obtained from the increase in&#13;<br \/>\nenergy prices to disadvantaged competitors. On Wednesday, the Commission is&#13;<br \/>\nexpected to present short-term support measures, while long-term solutions will&#13;<br \/>\nbe discussed at the EU summit of October 21-22. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The special committee continues its inquiry into the soaring prices for electricity and natural gas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":89986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37738],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-90093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Parliament investigates the increase of energy prices - Radio Romania International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/today-in-the-news\/parliament-investigates-the-increase-of-energy-prices-id90093.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Parliament investigates the increase of energy prices - 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