ERSE has moved the energy component of the regulated tariff by half a cent a kilowatt hour, and says the reason is the war between Iran and the United States working through gas prices into electricity. It reaches 779,000 clients directly, and the free market buys in the same wholesale market.
ERSE published its 2025 technical quality report for the gas sector on Friday. Nigeria supplied half the discharge operations at Sines, the United States 43 percent and Russia the remaining 7 percent, and the Iberian blackout cost one Nigerian tanker 11 hours.
What the audiovisual contribution on your electricity bill is, why you pay it without a TV, the €2.85 and €1 rates, and who is exempt.
A new decree-law puts the law behind electricity consumers: cut-offs are barred during peak-demand periods and while a billing complaint is open, vulnerable households gain a right to payment plans, large suppliers must offer fixed-price deals, and the social tariff follows them on switching.
ERSE proposes a 6.4% lift to the regulated TUR natural-gas tariff effective 1 October 2026. Couple-only bills move to €17.38/month and two-child families to €32.53. Middle East supply disruption drives the third above-6% revision in five years.
How to put electricity in your name, choose contracted power and a tariff, compare suppliers, read your bill, and get the social tariff.
ERSE has formally classed the 28 April 2025 Iberian blackout as an 'evento excecional' originating in Spain — REN and E-Redes are exempted from automatic quality-of-service compensation on consumer bills, but the three-year judicial-damages window remains open in Portuguese and Spanish courts.
