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Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Standing Charges) Bill 2023
- Sponsor
- Darren O'Rourke · Sinn Féin
- Introduced
- 11 May 2023
- Last updated
- 14 Nov 2024
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Amends Electricity Regulation Act 1999 to give CRU legal power to monitor and regulate standing charges on electricity and gas bills, which are currently unregulated.
- Requires utility companies to obtain CRU approval before increasing standing charges and limits charges to cover fixed connection and maintenance costs only.
- Empowers CRU to investigate suppliers using standing charges to boost profits and order excessive charges be reduced to cost-recovery levels.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage33rd Dáil11 May 2023
Debates
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