The hearing is chaired by the Enargas controller, Osvaldo Pitrau, and has 28 main speakers and 14 substitutes.
The representatives of the companies pointed out the need for temporary tariff adjustment due to the arrears accumulated in recent years, and stressed that they do not receive subsidies from the national State.
Guillermo Cánovas, on behalf of TGN, demanded an adaptation of the natural gas transportation tariff that would have an average impact, with taxes included, of 7.5% in a level 1 user in the province of Tucumán, and of 16, 5% in one of the same condition in the city of Buenos Aires.
Cánovas maintained the “urgent need to adopt a transition rate”, because the company “does not have any subsidy from the national State” and that in the last four years it had an increase of 60%, against a wholesale inflation of 473%. .
In his presentation, he pointed out that from April 2019 to November 2022 wholesale inflation was 473% and TGN’s rates increased by 60%, “with which the company’s real income was reduced by almost a quarter.”
He also pointed out that since 2001 the company’s operating costs increased by 29,369%, wholesale inflation was 37,920% and rates increased 7,368%.
He also stated that “andn nine months of 2022″ the company had “an operating loss of 2,981 million pesos”and that the proposed rate adaptation aims to cover “only half of that loss.”
For his part, Rubén de Muria, representing TGS, requested an increase in the transportation stage of 135% as of February, but clarified that its impact on the final rate is less since transportation “only represents 9, 8% of the total cost.”
How could the invoice be?
De Muria gave different examples of the impact that this increase would have on a Metrogas user’s bill, without taxes, according to category, consumption and level of segmentation.
For the category R-1a level 1 user, with an average consumption of 170 m3, the impact would be $78 per monthfor a level 3 with a consumption of 194 m3, the additional cost would amount to 90 pesos per month and for one of level 2 with an average consumption of 204 m3, of 94 pesos per month.
Likewise, for the R-2.3 category, he indicated that for a level 2 user, with a consumption of 970 m3, the additional cost would amount to $447 per month.
De Muria warned that, in 30 years of service, “the regulatory framework was only in force in 12 and in the other 18 the activity was subject to emergency laws.”
Source: Ambito
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