Today, the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy sent to the Storting a draft bill on benefits for electricity. The aim is for the Storting to be able to adopt the package of measures before the end of the year.
- The government has proposed emergency measures in an emergency. It is now up to the Storting to adopt a package of measures before the end of the year to ensure that ordinary people across the country are helped to cope with record high electricity prices through the winter - says the Minister of Petroleum and Energy. Marte Mjøs Persen.
The program will run from December 2021 and including March 2022 and will be managed through network companies.
- In a short time we concluded an agreement to help households all over the country. This can make it easier for people to meet Christmas, says Mjøs Persen.
We wrote more about this in our previous article on wataha.no, entitled A government with a billion-dollar support package for electricity. In it you can find more details on subsidies to electricity bills.
Source: regjeringen
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