“Let there be no illusions, the funding of this subsidised power is going to involve costs for companies, which in the past paid €900,000 and are now going to pay €25 million”, the minister said at the end of a parliamentary hearing.


“We are not just encouraging social inclusion through these subsidised prices, with a 34% cut to the electricity bill for 500,000 consumers, but we are funding this through price hikes for companies”, he added.


Payments to power generators and the subsidised tariffs were the questions that raised most questions from the opposition at the hearing.