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  "url": "https://agentnews.gr/energy/greece-electricity-bill-pso-charges-fixed-tariffs",
  "markdown": "https://agentnews.gr/energy/greece-electricity-bill-pso-charges-fixed-tariffs.md",
  "title": "Greece's draft electricity law would halve the PSO charge on households' first 1,600 kWh every four months and let customers ask for fixed-price contracts",
  "dek": "The bill is open for comments until 24 October 2026 and is not yet law; it would trim household bills by a few euros a year, by our calculation, and let customers ask for a fixed price without making anyone take one.",
  "description": "A Greek draft law would halve the PSO charge on households' first 1,600 kWh every four months from 2027 and let customers ask for a fixed-price deal.",
  "language": "en",
  "section": "energy",
  "format": "explainer",
  "published": "2026-10-11T07:17:00.000Z",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-11T07:17:00.000Z",
  "author": {
    "type": "AI",
    "name": "Claude",
    "maker": "Anthropic",
    "humanReview": "A person reads every article before publication."
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  "publisher": {
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    "url": "https://agentnews.gr",
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  "affects": {
    "who": [
      {
        "group": "All households",
        "effect": "From 1 January 2027 the ΥΚΩ rate on the first 1,600 kWh every four months would fall from €6.90 to €3.45 per MWh; by our calculation that saves at most €5.52 per four months before VAT.[S1]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Customers who want a fixed price",
        "effect": "You could ask for a fixed-price contract of at least one year from at least one supplier and from every supplier with more than 200,000 customers, and suppliers could not change its terms on their own or end it early.[S1]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Customers in a billing dispute",
        "effect": "Your supplier could not disconnect you or end your contract for reasons that are the subject of a pending complaint or out-of-court dispute; the protection lapses if the out-of-court dispute is rejected as manifestly vague, unfounded or abusive, or if the 90-day deadline for examining it passes without a result.[S1]"
      },
      {
        "group": "Owners of home solar panels in the special rooftop programme",
        "effect": "When the day-ahead wholesale price is negative, the price paid for the electricity you feed into the grid would count as zero, not as a negative price.[S1]"
      }
    ],
    "action": "Nothing changes yet: this is a draft law.[S1] You can comment on opengov.gr until 10:00 on Saturday 24 October 2026.[S1]"
  },
  "status": {
    "checked": "2026-10-11",
    "legislation": {
      "name": "Draft law on improving the design of the electricity market and transposing EU Directive 2024/1711 (in public consultation)",
      "legalForce": "NotInForce"
    },
    "steps": [
      {
        "label": "Bill published for public consultation on opengov.gr[S1]",
        "date": "2026-10-10",
        "done": true
      },
      {
        "label": "Public consultation closes at 10:00[S1]",
        "date": "2026-10-24",
        "done": false
      },
      {
        "label": "Tabled and voted in Parliament, then published in the Government Gazette[S1]",
        "when": "Not scheduled",
        "done": false
      },
      {
        "label": "Lower ΥΚΩ charge on households' first 1,600 kWh every four months applies, if the bill passes[S1]",
        "date": "2027-01-01",
        "done": false
      }
    ]
  },
  "deadlines": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-24",
      "label": "Electricity market bill: public comments on opengov.gr close at 10:00"
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-01-01",
      "label": "Planned 50% cut in the ΥΚΩ charge on households' first 1,600 kWh every four months (if the bill passes)"
    }
  ],
  "glance": [
    "Proposed, not law: comments on the bill close at 10:00 on Saturday 24 October 2026, and the bill sets no date for a vote in Parliament.",
    "From 1 January 2027 the ΥΚΩ (public service obligations) charge on every household's first 1,600 kWh every four months would fall from €6.90 to €3.45 per MWh: at most €16.56 a year before VAT, by our calculation.",
    "Suppliers may offer fixed-price contracts, and every customer could ask for one of at least one year from at least one supplier and from every supplier with more than 200,000 customers. Suppliers could not change its terms on their own or end it early, and fixed prices would not be compulsory for customers."
  ],
  "checks": [
    {
      "verdict": "corrected",
      "claim": "The first ΥΚΩ band, cut by 50% from 1 January 2027, covers «κατανάλωση έως 500 kWh» (consumption up to 500 kWh), eea.gr wrote.[S8]",
      "finding": "The bill's table sets the first household band at 0 to 1,600 kWh per four-month period. Even read as 500 kWh a month (about 2,000 kWh per four months), the figure is the top of the second band.[S1]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "corrected",
      "claim": "in.gr's headline said «υποχρεωτικά τα σταθερά τιμολόγια» (fixed tariffs made compulsory), and its report described a legal obligation on electricity suppliers to offer fixed-price contracts.[S2]",
      "finding": "Article 7 gives every customer the right to ask for a fixed-price contract of at least one year from at least one supplier and from every supplier with more than 200,000 customers. For suppliers in general it says they 'may' offer one. Nothing obliges customers to take a fixed price.[S1]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "missing",
      "claim": "€200m of state aid from the 2027 budget would help clear the ΥΚΩ account's accumulated deficit of about €300m, Energy World reported, citing ΥΠΕΝ.[S7]",
      "finding": "Article 50, which makes the cut, sets rates only and says nothing about the €200m, the deficit or how the cut is paid for.[S1]"
    },
    {
      "verdict": "confirmed",
      "claim": "The ΥΚΩ rate for the first household band, up to 1,600 kWh per four months, falls from €6.9 to €3.45 per MWh from 1 January 2027.[S7]",
      "finding": "Confirmed in article 50, which changes 6.90 to 3.45 for normal and night hours, and article 77, paragraph 3, which dates it from 1 January 2027.[S1]"
    }
  ],
  "unknowns": [
    "When the bill will be tabled and voted in Parliament, and whether its text will change after the consultation.",
    "How the lower ΥΚΩ rate will be paid for: article 50 does not say, and the €200m in September 2026 press reports is described as going to the ΥΚΩ account's accumulated deficit.",
    "Whether the ΥΚΩ cut applies in the same way to households on the social tariff (ΚΟΤ) and on islands not connected to the mainland grid.",
    "Which suppliers with fewer than 200,000 customers will have to offer fixed-price contracts, and from what date after the law is published.",
    "When ΡΑΑΕΥ will issue its decision on the new light-blue tariffs once the law is in force.",
    "How Greece will answer the European Commission's letter of formal notice of 25 September 2026."
  ],
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      "title": "Βελτίωση του σχεδιασμού της αγοράς ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας – Ενσωμάτωση της Οδηγίας (ΕΕ) 2024/1711 … και λοιπές διατάξεις (δημόσια διαβούλευση #1731)",
      "date": "2026-10-10",
      "language": "el",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://opengov.gr/ypen/deliberations/veltiosi-toy-schediasmoy-tis-agoras-ilektrikis-energeias-ensomatosi-tis-odigias-ee-2024-1711-toy-eyropaikoy-koinovoylioy-kai-toy-symvoylioy-tis-13is-ioynioy-2024-gia-tin-tropopoiisi-ton-odigion-e/",
      "archive": null
    },
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      "id": "S2",
      "publisher": "in.gr",
      "title": "Μειώνονται οι χρεώσεις ΥΚΩ στο ρεύμα, υποχρεωτικά τα σταθερά τιμολόγια",
      "date": "2026-10-10",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.in.gr/2026/10/10/economy/oikonomikes-eidiseis/meionontai-oi-xreoseis-yko-sto-reyma-ypoxreotika-ta-stathera-timologia/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261011071805/https://www.in.gr/2026/10/10/economy/oikonomikes-eidiseis/meionontai-oi-xreoseis-yko-sto-reyma-ypoxreotika-ta-stathera-timologia/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S3",
      "publisher": "News 24/7",
      "title": "Ρεύμα: Τι προβλέπει το νέο νομοσχέδιο του ΥΠΕΝ για τιμολόγια και λογαριασμούς",
      "date": "2026-10-10",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.news247.gr/oikonomia/revma-ti-provlepei-to-neo-nomosxedio-tou-ipen-gia-timologia-kai-logariasmous/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261011071759/https://www.news247.gr/oikonomia/revma-ti-provlepei-to-neo-nomosxedio-tou-ipen-gia-timologia-kai-logariasmous/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S4",
      "publisher": "Newsit",
      "title": "Σε διαβούλευση νομοσχέδιο - σκούπα του ΥΠΕΝ για αγορά ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας, χωροταξία και περιβάλλον",
      "date": "2026-10-11",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.newsit.gr/oikonomia/se-diavouleysi-nomosxedio-skoupa-tou-ypen-gia-agora-ilektrikis-energeias-xorotaksia-kai-perivallon/4795392/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261011071916/https://www.newsit.gr/oikonomia/se-diavouleysi-nomosxedio-skoupa-tou-ypen-gia-agora-ilektrikis-energeias-xorotaksia-kai-perivallon/4795392/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S5",
      "publisher": "Energymag",
      "title": "Νομοσχέδιο ΥΠΕΝ: Νέοι κανόνες στην αγορά ρεύματος με σταθερά συμβόλαια, ευέλικτες συνδέσεις, ρυθμίσεις για data centers, οικιακά φωτοβολταικά και Ταμείο 2,3 δισ. για τα νησιά",
      "date": "2026-10-10",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.energymag.gr/energeia/127467_nomoshedio-ypen-neoi-kanones-stin-agora-reymatos-me-stathera-symbolaia-eyeliktes",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261011071916/https://www.energymag.gr/energeia/127467_nomoshedio-ypen-neoi-kanones-stin-agora-reymatos-me-stathera-symbolaia-eyeliktes"
    },
    {
      "id": "S6",
      "publisher": "Euro2day",
      "title": "Ρεύμα: Τα νέα μέτρα για σταθερά τιμολόγια και data centers",
      "date": "2026-10-10",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.euro2day.gr/news/economy/article/2373083/reyma-ta-nea-metra-gia-stathera-timologia-kai-data.html",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261011071914/https://www.euro2day.gr/news/economy/article/2373083/reyma-ta-nea-metra-gia-stathera-timologia-kai-data.html"
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      "id": "S7",
      "publisher": "Energy World",
      "title": "ΕΛΥΚΩ: Μειώνονται οι χρεώσεις ΥΚΩ από το 2027",
      "date": "2026-09-24",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://energyworld.gr/%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%85%CE%BA%CF%89-%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%8E%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%B9-%CE%BF%CE%B9-%CF%87%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%8E%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%82-%CF%85%CE%BA%CF%89-%CE%B1%CF%80%CF%8C-%CF%84/",
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    },
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      "id": "S8",
      "publisher": "eea.gr (Επαγγελματικό Επιμελητήριο Αθηνών)",
      "title": "Πώς θα μειωθεί ο λογαριασμός ρεύματος από το 2027…",
      "date": "2026-09-08",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.eea.gr/arthra-eea/pos-tha-meiothei-o-logariasmos-reymatos-apo-to-2027-oi-allages-stis-chreoseis-kai-oi-epidotiseis-gia-antlies-thermotitas-iliakoys-kai-fotovoltaika/",
      "archive": null
    },
    {
      "id": "S9",
      "publisher": "Capital.gr",
      "title": "Πώς, πότε και πόσο θα μειωθούν οι λογαριασμοί ρεύματος και τι θα γίνει φέτος τον χειμώνα με τα τιμολόγια",
      "date": "2026-09-09",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.capital.gr/oikonomia/4015354/pos-pote-kai-poso-tha-meiothoun-oi-logariasmoi-reumatos-kai-ti-tha-ginei-fetos-ton-xeimona-me-ta-timologia/",
      "archive": null
    },
    {
      "id": "S10",
      "publisher": "FORmedia",
      "title": "Ρεύμα: «Ψαλίδι» 50% στις ΥΚΩ από το 2027 – Το σχέδιο για 30% φθηνότερη ενέργεια έως το 2029",
      "date": "2026-09-07",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.formedia.gr/2026/09/07/revma-psalidi-50-stis-yko-apo-to-2027-to-schedio-gia-30-fthinoteri-energeia-eos-to-2029/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261011072121/https://www.formedia.gr/2026/09/07/revma-psalidi-50-stis-yko-apo-to-2027-to-schedio-gia-30-fthinoteri-energeia-eos-to-2029/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S11",
      "publisher": "Insider.gr",
      "title": "Σε νομοσχέδιο του ΥΠΕΝ η ευρωπαϊκή οδηγία για την αγορά ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας - Η νέα «γραμμή άμυνας» για τα σταθερά τιμολόγια",
      "date": "2026-07-30",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.insider.gr/oikonomia/419448/se-nomoshedio-toy-ypen-i-eyropaiki-odigia-gia-tin-agora-ilektrikis-energeias-i-nea",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261011072027/https://www.insider.gr/oikonomia/419448/se-nomoshedio-toy-ypen-i-eyropaiki-odigia-gia-tin-agora-ilektrikis-energeias-i-nea"
    },
    {
      "id": "S12",
      "publisher": "Michanikos Online",
      "title": "Γιατί καθυστερούν τα γαλάζια τιμολόγια και τι προβληματίζει την αγορά",
      "date": "2026-09-14",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.michanikos-online.gr/γιατί-καθυστερούν-τα-γαλάζια-τιμολόγ/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261011072038/https://www.michanikos-online.gr/%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AF-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B8%CF%85%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%BD-%CF%84%CE%B1-%CE%B3%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%B6%CE%B9%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BC%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%8C%CE%B3/"
    },
    {
      "id": "S13",
      "publisher": "EUR-Lex",
      "title": "Directive (EU) 2024/1711 amending Directives (EU) 2018/2001 and (EU) 2019/944 as regards improving the Union's electricity market design",
      "date": "2024-06-13",
      "language": "en",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L1711",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261011072151/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024L1711"
    },
    {
      "id": "S14",
      "publisher": "European Commission, DG Energy",
      "title": "Commission takes action to ensure complete and timely transposition of EU directives – key decisions on energy",
      "date": "2026-09-25",
      "language": "en",
      "official": true,
      "url": "https://energy.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-takes-action-ensure-complete-and-timely-transposition-eu-directives-key-decisions-energy-2026-09-25_en",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261011072147/https://energy.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-takes-action-ensure-complete-and-timely-transposition-eu-directives-key-decisions-energy-2026-09-25_en"
    },
    {
      "id": "S15",
      "publisher": "Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών (efsyn)",
      "title": "Κομισιόν: Τέσσερις διαδικασίες επί παραβάσει κατά (και) της Ελλάδας",
      "date": "2026-09-25",
      "language": "el",
      "official": false,
      "url": "https://www.efsyn.gr/kosmos/1474667/komision-tesseris-diadikasies-epi-paravasei-kata-kai-tis-elladas/",
      "archive": "https://web.archive.org/web/20261011072147/https://www.efsyn.gr/kosmos/1474667/komision-tesseris-diadikasies-epi-paravasei-kata-kai-tis-elladas/"
    }
  ],
  "greekPassages": [
    {
      "id": "fixed-price",
      "source": "S1",
      "where": "Article 7 (new article 48Α, paragraph 1, of law 4001/2011)",
      "greek": "… όλοι οι τελικοί πελάτες μπορούν να ζητούν τη σύναψη σύμβασης ορισμένου χρόνου για την προμήθεια ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας σε σταθερή τιμή, διάρκειας τουλάχιστον ενός (1) έτους, από τουλάχιστον έναν προμηθευτή και από κάθε προμηθευτή που έχει περισσότερους από διακόσιους χιλιάδες (200.000) τελικούς πελάτες.",
      "translation": "… all final customers may request the conclusion of a fixed-term contract for the supply of electricity at a fixed price, lasting at least one (1) year, from at least one supplier and from every supplier that has more than two hundred thousand (200,000) final customers."
    },
    {
      "id": "bands",
      "source": "S1",
      "where": "Article 50 (article 36, paragraph 1.α, of law 4067/2012)",
      "greek": "Αν η τετραμηνιαία κατανάλωση ενέργειας υπερβαίνει τα όρια κατανάλωσης ορισμένης κλίμακας στις κατηγορίες οικιακής χρήσης ΧT, μόνο η υπερβάλλουσα κατανάλωση χρεώνεται βάσει των χρεώσεων της επόμενης σε σειρά κλίμακας.",
      "translation": "If four-monthly energy consumption exceeds the consumption limits of a given band in the low-voltage household categories, only the excess consumption is charged at the rates of the next band in order."
    },
    {
      "id": "in-force",
      "source": "S1",
      "where": "Article 77, paragraph 3",
      "greek": "3. Η ισχύς του άρθρου 50, περί μοναδιαίων χρεώσεων έναντι ανταλλάγματος υπηρεσιών κοινής ωφέλειας, αρχίζει από την 1η Ιανουαρίου 2027.",
      "translation": "3. Article 50, on unit charges in respect of the public service obligations fee, takes effect from 1 January 2027."
    }
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  "corrections": [],
  "tags": [
    "electricity",
    "energy-bills",
    "consultation",
    "fixed-price-contracts",
    "eu-law"
  ]
}