The number of household customer’s connections to the electricity distribution networks increased between 2018 and 2022, with operators allocating more funds both for the connection of new consumers and for the expansion of electricity networks of public interest, a study carried out by the Competition Council showed.
This intensification of activity took place following the implementation of the provisions by which end customers were connected free of charge, the costs being borne by the distribution system operators.
Thus, between 2018 and 2022, the number of household customers connected to the energy distribution networks increased from 8,798,964 in June 2018 to 9,280,920 in June 2022 (+5%). During the period when household customers had, according to the law, free access to the network, from the first half of 2020 to the second half of 2021, the number of connection requests increased significantly.
