Electricity and gas bills, the new invoice from today: what changes with the 'energy receipt'

The obligation for energy sellers to display consumption in a clearer format comes into force in July, at the request of Arera

Electricity and gas bills, the new invoice is coming today. In fact, the obligation comes into force, Arera reminds, for electricity sellers to issue bills in a new, clearer and more comprehensible format. The cover page will be the same for everyone with the main general information and two boxes: the 'energy receipt' which shows quantity by price , and the 'offer box' which recalls the contractual conditions signed by the customer .

- Unified frontispiece: corresponds to the first page of the bill in which sellers report the amount to be paid and all the essential information on the customer, the type of service, the supply contract, invoicing and payments;

- Energy receipt: shows the formation of the overall cost of energy in relation to consumption, according to the quantity x price structure, divided into 'consumption quota' and 'fixed quota', plus the 'power quota' for electricity; in this way the invoiced amounts are aggregated in such a way as to highlight, on the one hand, the expenditure quota that depends on consumption and, on the other, the expenditure quota independent of the volumes of energy consumed, therefore paid to have an active point (the quotas are divided, in turn, into sales and 'network and charges'). This section also shows VAT and excise duties, any social bonuses, other items (for example: late payment interest), additional products and/or services and the RAI license fee separately;

- Offer box: contains the identification code (Offer code, also usable on www.ilportaleofferte.it) and all the elements useful to the customer to verify that the signed contract is correctly applied;

- Essential information elements: this section, organized in boxes, contains, among other things, information relating to the technical characteristics of the supply, readings and consumption, any recalculations, historical information on consumption and maximum power drawn, payment status and installments.