Τhe Ministry of Environment and Energy announced on Tuesday that it will continue to support electricity consumers in August with a total amount of 19 million euros. The subsidies for electricity in household tariffs and for all main and non-main residence services, without income criteria and regardless of provider, are …

Τhe subsidy for household electricity tariffs for March has been set at 40 euros per megawatt hour, according to statements by Environment and Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas on Tuesday morning. In other words, the amount of the subsidy remains at the same as in February, whereas the rates announced by …

The “adjustment clause” on the electricity bills is frozen until summer 2023, according to an amendment tabled by the Environment & Energy Ministry late on Friday and in the context of a bill for the simplification of the licensing of energy providers. According to the amendment, the suspension of the …

A guide on how electricity consumers in Greece will receive the state aid for ‘inflated electricity bills in the last six months has been issued and and posted on several media. The guide refs to beneficiaries, how to apply on the special platform as well as how to calculate the …

Greece’s Consumer Institute INKA has launched a collective legal action against electricity providers who impose an additional cost on consumers through the so-called “adjustment clause.” The clause burdens the already and extra charge of often several hundreds euros to the already soaring electricity bills with an extra charge of often …

A 30-year-old hotelier on the island of Rhodes started a hunger-strike outside the Public Power Company due to exorbitant electricity bills that she is not able to pay or to make an installement-settlement. Speaking to local newspaper rodiaki, the woman who has a small hotel in the center of the …

Price hikes with shocking 50% increase on electricity bills as from September and 15%-20% up in several essential goods are threaten to push one in three Greek household into impoverishment. The government signals that it will take measures to contain the problem through a series of intervention in a market …

For the Greek Public Power Company (DEH) and the Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) the solution is simple: it will get 100million euros either from the state budget or from the power consumers. The amount comes together from a 50% refund of the special consumption tax (SCT) in the fuel …

As if we did not have enough financial burdens, Greek Public Power Company increases charges on electricity bills and demands the payment of additional 735 million euros by millions of electricity consumers. “It is a small, temporary contribution,” Greek PPC said in a statement responding to the outcry. Greeks know …

Electricity bills pile up. It is not the pure cost for electricity that makes it unaffordable to many Greek households struggling with unemployment. It is the extra charges incl. municipality taxes and state broadcast fees doubling the amount a consumer has to pay to the Greek Public Power Company. There …

Competitiveness is good – if it is real. With seven private company active in the energy sector, Greece’s Public Power Company (DEH) sees itself obliged to adjust to the new market conditions. As of 1. July 2016, PPC will grant 15% reduction to those private and business customers who pay …

That’s the never ending story of electricity bills skyrocketing with the adding of the emergency property tax. Greeks are called to pay several hundreds euro month in month out. With many declaring they are sheer unable to meet this kind of expenses. Even thought the Finance Ministry made some arrangement last year, people …

Several hundreds of angry citizens gathered outside the headquarters of Greek Public Power Company (DEH)to protest the new hikes in electricity and the attached “emergency property tax” that skyrocket the end amount Greeks have to pay month in, month out. Banner: “We pay nothing, we owe nothing” “I dont’ pay any …

This is the never ending confusion-story of the emergency property tax that skyrockets the electricity bills every month and forces Greeks to pay exorbitant amounts to avoid power outages. On Wednesday, Greece’s Supreme Court annulled the ban of a first instance Athens court that had ruled “the collection of emergency property …

For one more time confusion prevail over the emergency property tax to be paid through electricity bill issued by the Public Power Company (DEH). After an Athens court ruled that it was illegal to collect the property levy though these bills, Greek media reported that the management of DEH instructed …

An Athens court ruled on Tuesday that the practice to collect the emergency property tax through the electricity bills is illegal. Several consumers’ associations and lawyers’ organizations had filed a complained about the Public Power Company (DEH) collecting the emergency property tax. The several  hundred euros of E.P.T levy have been skyrocketing …

Forget what I told you about the Emergency Property Tax 2012. Greek Finance Ministry issued a statement on Wednesday afternoon saying that the Emergency Property Tax for 2012 will be tagged -again –  in the Electricity Bills. “Due to current law and technical difficulties as well as time limitations, it is …

This is one example of the madness Greeks experience each and every day when they contact public services. The story was published at a website by Dimitris Messinis who was eye-witness of the struggle of a citizen to pay utilities and lives in the dark as The Public Power Company …

Greece’s Public Power Company DEH announced that it has cut the emergency property tax 2011 from its bills and forwarded the unpaid taxes to local tax offices. As of May 1, 2012 the EPT can be directly paid at the tax office. The EPT has been taken out from the electricity bills …

Electricity suppliers announced lower bills for May, with prices set very close to the target set by the government for final charges to consumers. More specifically, PPC reported a charge of 15.9 cents per KWh for energy consumption up to 500 KWh (16.5 cents in April).  Protergia: 13.96 cents/KW  Heron: …