Electricity Price for Households in Serbia Hikes by 6.5 Percent as of Sept. 1

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Electricity for households and small consumers in Serbia will be 6.5 percent more expensive as of Sept. 1, the Agency for Energy announced on July 28.

On the request of the Serbian Electric Power Company (EPS), the Agency gave the approval for the average price of electricity for consumers with the guaranteed right of supply at regulated prices (households and small consumers) to amount to 8.144 dinars per kilowatt-hour before taxes, which represents a 6.5 percent hike compared with the present average price.

The Sloga trade union warned on July 28 that the decision to raise the electricity price was "the continuation of the perfidious practice by which the citizens of Serbia have been ruthlessly robbed for years now" because the true price hike is significantly higher. The union pointed out that more than a million citizens of Serbia were on the lists of debt enforcers, mainly because they had no money to pay their utility bills.