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The Commission for the Regulation of Utilities (CRU) has confirmed that electricity customers will receive a payment of €89.10, spread between March and September of this year.
The impact for bill paying customers will mean that their electricity supplier is required to credit customers the figure for the remaining seven months of the 2022/23 tariff period.
The Public Service Obligation levy (PSO) is in place to fund investment in renewable power generation.
The CRU confirmed this monthly PSO Payment of €12.73 will be clearly reflected as an individual billing line item on every customer’s bill.
Customers are not required to take any action and the payment will be reflected on the first bill received based on usage of electricity from the 1st of March.
For prepay meter customers, the PSO Payment will be credited daily to their prepayment meter by deducting the PSO Payment due to customers from the daily electricity standing charge by the customers electricity supplier.
No action from the prepay customers is required and the PSO Payment will be reflected through a reduced standing charge on a daily basis from the 1st of March 2023.
All electricity customer groups will receive the benefit of the PSO payments. Small Commercial customers will receive a monthly payment of €44.50 beginning in March until September 2023. Medium and large commercial customers will be paid based on their kVa usage.
The new legislation to enable the making of payments to customers will be published by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) in the coming weeks.
In advance of this, the CRU, the Distribution System Operator (ESB Networks) and the Transmission System Operator (EirGrid), have been working to develop the detailed mechanism to facilitate payments to customers that will begin from the 1st of March.
This follows the reduction of the PSO Levy to zero in October 2022.
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