RAE, the Regulatory Authority for Energy, has determined the size of network usage surcharges all large-scale consumers stand to be handed back by natural gas distributors to offset across-the-board surcharges imposed on industrial enterprises between August 14, 2015 to December 1, 2016. The amount to be returned by the gas distributors totals 8.83 million euros.

Gas distributor EDA Attiki, covering the wider Athens area, will need to return to large-scale consumers a total of 1.44 million euros, EDA Thess, covering the Thessaloniki and Thessaly areas, must return 3.26 million euros, and DEDA, covering the rest of Greece, needs to return 4.13 million euros.

The 8.83 million-euro amount that will need to be returned by the three gas distribution companies is expected to be offered in 36 monthly installments from November, 2021 to October, 2024.

Large-scale consumers were universally charged a network usage surcharge of 4 cents per MWh over a 16-month period, based on a bailout term from 2015, which prompted EVIKEN, the Association of Industrial Energy Consumers, to forward an official complaint to the European Commission.