THREE POWER PENALTY
Three utilities have been sanctioned by the Community of Madrid by imperfect information and billing consumption estimates. many times as I have said on this blog, that the estimated consumption is a pure scam to play with billions of citizens in Spain.
Community has opened disciplinary proceedings by 3.87 million euros, to understand that they have violated the rights of consumers from Madrid to receive effective information and sufficient and considering that these entities are billed for services not rendered, contrary to the laws of consumer protection.
regional executive urges companies to always check according to the actual reading and never through estimated readings. Madrid Law Consumer Protection states that "goods and services products available to consumers, should incorporate, carry, or to allow objective, true, effective and sufficient on its essential characteristics."
Thus, among other reasons, these companies are penalized for not clearly express the billed consumption periods or for not explaining how to perform the corresponding adjustment of consumption to adjust billing real reading, resulting, ultimately, a bill incomprehensible to most consumers complaining.
is abusive, and therefore prohibited and punishable by contractual provisions that provide for recovery of services used or consumed products effectively. The law also punishes as a violation Madrid consumption "the execution of transactions in which consumers are unreasonably imposed conditions, charges or illegal charges."
So companies can return to bimonthly billing system, or make monthly readings certifying that the consumer is billed for electricity consumed or to continue monthly billing only by fixed costs such as hire of meters, which quantification is independent of consumption in the months in which no actual reading takes place counter.
The Ministry of Industry last year imposed monthly billing to camouflage the real rise in electricity tariffs have since risen on average by 50% in recent years.
And since this terrible habit of having the power in Spain, Endesa without going any further. I request the Government of Andalusia to walk instead of taking money improperly after ERE ERE base, take advantage and the power to fine for the same reasons, because when I phoned to complain about those "estimated consumption", the only thing they can think is that they call you to them, a 902, to dictate consumption indicating the counter, or imposed upon the consumer the burden of proof and top with telephone costs.
