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Motion: Plan against energy poverty (23/08/2016)

Energy poverty can be defined as a situation that suffers unable home to pay an amount of services enough energy to satisfy their domestic and / or when he is forced to spend too much of their income to pay for necessities bill energy in your home.

Energy poverty depends primarily on three components: household income, energy costs and quality of housing in terms of efficiency.

According to the Household Budget Survey -EPF- and Living Conditions Survey -ECV-, around 10% of the Spanish population suffers (4 million people), and it is a phenomenon in crescendo, while unemployment and the economic crisis undermine the purchasing power of citizens, basic services such as electricity, gas or water, whose prices have become more expensive without respite, are attracting increasing share in the family budget.

CVD 2011 highlights that 6% of the population can not keep your home at a suitable temperature, percentage stands at 8% for women who live alone.

It is still an invisible phenomenon both its domestic nature and its interrelationship with other manifestations of poverty and social exclusion.

And despite the difficulty of quantifying this phenomenon and there are studies such as energy poverty they reflect increases in our country.

The last delObservatorio Cruz vulnerability report Rojaseñala that about 58% of the people served by the Red Cross in 2013 had trouble keeping your home at an optimal temperature, 16% more than in 2011. Another fact is that one of three people served by Red Cross can not afford basic supplies such as water, electricity or gas.

Energy poverty has a profound impact on the lives of people and can influence their life expectancy and worsening of chronic diseases.

It is estimated that energy poverty may be responsible for more than 2,300 premature deaths per year against 1480 caused by traffic accidents.

The consequences of energy poverty are multiple: lack of heating affects hygiene, health (dilemma "heat or eat", respiratory diseases, etc.) and often generates mortality and over-indebtedness, as well as social isolation and geographical.

The EU also shares this diagnosis and by Directives 2009/72 / EC and 2009/73 / EC of the internal market for electricity and gas, respectively, make demands requiring Member States to take measures to address the phenomenon of poverty energy.

EESC Opinion Economic and European Social -Committee 2011 on "Energy poverty in the context of the liberalization of the economic crisis," says energy poverty is a new social priority that needs support at all levels and proposes that the energy poverty is taken into account when developing any energy policy.

And in a subsequent opinion of 2013 "For a coordinated European action to prevent and combat energy poverty", the same EESC and European Social Economic -Committee, it states that energy is an essential common good, because of its essential role in all daily activities, which allows every citizen to have a dignified life, while lack of it causes dramas.

He adds that energy poverty kills physically and socially.

The Spanish State is the country of the EU27 with prices more expensive electricity, after Malta and Cyprus (FACUA 2012).

According to Red Cross 2012, in two years the gas has increased 22%, 34% light, water 8.5% butane and 23%.

According to Eurostat, from 2001 to 2012, the electricity bill in Spain costs on average 105.1% increase.

Between 2007 and 2012, 49% more.

If you count from 2006 to recent increases in the case of small consumer the increase is 88%, which, combined with the economic crisis, compounded the difficulty in addressing the energy bill of the most vulnerable people, growing strongly energy poverty and power outages.

The Spanish State lacks a specific policy to prevent the phenomenon of energy poverty suffering more and more families and households to ensure a vital minimum consumption to all families based on the number of members and seasonal periods.

The state should improve the current social bond, to take into account the conditions of housing and family income level and not only the contracted power or family / work situation.

We should also assess the possibility of establishing a social bond for butane gas, as do other countries.

Royal Decree-Law 13/2012 of 30 March, which transposes directives relating to the internal electricity and gas markets and in electronic communications, and measures for correcting deviations are taken by mismatches between costs and revenues of the electricity and gas sectors, referred in its written energy poverty, announces the establishment of protective measures for vulnerable consumers and temporarily reverts to electric social bono regulated by Royal Decree law 6 / 2009 of April 30, laying down certain measures are taken in the energy sector and the social bond passes.

The energy market reform undertaken by the government so far does not establish any solution to the phenomenon of energy poverty and the tariff deficit threatens to further increase the bill.

Prices rise due to the lack of a genuine electricity reform, and the result is falling on consumers and renewable, without a previous diagnosis.

The theoretical liberalization of the electricity sector has failed to lower the price of supply.

The unresolved issue of the tariff deficit is becoming the main cause of increased rates while energy poverty is solved by an increase in consumer prices fixed, while the government looks the other way.

There experience at European level where in addition to specific vulnerable groups to pay bills or aimed at energy saving and efficiency aids, ensure supply at critical times, it is to prevent disconnection during the colder months or vulnerable consumers, it is say those who for reasons of age, health, disability or severe financial insecurity are not able to guarantee their personal welfare and that of other family members.

Therefore, the Municipal Group United Left-Greens Alhama de Murcia, presented to the plenary for discussion and approval the following

AGREEMENTS:

REQUIRE the Government of Spain approved a law on measures to prevent energy poverty regulating the system of basic household supplies and include mechanisms that prime saving and penalizes inefficient consumption, ensuring that tariffs are not subject to market, establishing social elements favorable prices and energy taxation for families with low income.

The City of Alhama de Murcia draw up a plan against energy poverty, in order to guarantee the right of citizens to basic household supplies to identify, prevent and correct situations detected.

Urge the Government of Spain to amend the Law 3 // 1992 of 28 December, the value added tax by establishing a reduced price for gas and electricity domestically VAT.

Signed: Municipal Group IU-Green

Source: IU-verdes Alhama de Murcia

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