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Household electricity consumers should enter into new contracts in the free market, where they find lower prices than they would pay if they stay with the old contracts, from 1 January, Virgil Popescu, Minister of Energy, told AGERPRES on Monday.
This is in the context that, from 1 January 2021, the electricity market will be fully liberalised and consumers who remain with the old contracts will pay higher bills with values between 13 pct and 26 pct.
Asked what he recommends to consumers to do under these conditions, the minister replied: There is the competitive market (free - ed. n.), which is cheaper than the universal market (the old regulated market - ed. n.) and there is Hidroelectrica, which has a lower price from January 1. People should look at the ANRE (National Authority for Regulation in Energy) website, at the price comparison, and make their best offer. I said a couple of weeks ago, when Hidroelectrica announced a 4 pct reduction in the electric