RAE, the Regulatory Authority for Energy, has forbidden the operating-expense inclusion of bonus amounts offered by distribution network operator DEDDIE/HEDNO to its executives, a decision reached through the authority’s approval of the operator’s allowed regulatory income for 2021 to 2024 and required revenue for 2021.

The bonus amounts set aside by the operator for executives are worth a total of one million euros, for one year.

RAE rejected the inclusion of this amount in HEDNO’s operating expenses by pointing out that bonus payments for executives do not offer any benefits to users of the distribution network.