The Postponement of the Free Electricity Market for Households – What Will Be the Effects for Bulgarians?

Raluca Maniță

The liberalization of the electricity market for households — meaning that residential consumers would join the free electricity exchange where businesses have traded for years — is being postponed. At least for now. The reform was supposed to take effect on July 1st this year , following an initial 365-day delay approved by Parliament in 2024. In the end, at least at first reading, the National Assembly voted: the liberalization of household electricity is postponed — though for now, the exact