A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
When energy is priced honestly, households choose their own efficiency.
The energy-efficiency obligation scheme imposes a quota on suppliers in place of the price signal — a mandate substituting for information the market already provides when prices are real.
96.2 millió Ft in administrative costs, fully offset by its own charge revenue — fiscally neutral, but the mechanism distorts supplier decisions regardless of the net cost.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: a metered quota of energy savings the scheme requires suppliers to deliver. The unseen: the household whose insulation decision would be made — and made better — by a price that reflects what energy actually costs, rather than by a regulatory directive.
Ellenvetés
"Energy efficiency needs a push — market prices alone won't get households to insulate."
Válasz
That argument depends on prices being real. When the household's energy bill is held below cost by the price cap, the conservation signal is already destroyed — the obligation scheme is patching a problem the cap created. Phase out the cap and let the price carry the signal; households will then make their own efficiency decisions against accurate costs.
Share if you think the right incentive for efficiency is an honest price, not an administrative quota.
Az elemző értékelése
Energiahatékonysági kötelezettségi rendszerrel összefüggő feladatok ellátása
Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.
Indoklás
The energy-efficiency obligation scheme requires energy suppliers to deliver a quota of metered end-use savings each year. The administrative line here is small and is fully offset by its own revenue, so this is not a fiscal-cost item. The phase-out logic is mechanism-based: the scheme imposes a quantity mandate on suppliers in place of letting the price of energy carry the conservation signal. Where energy is priced at cost, a household weighing insulation against its heating bill is already deciding how much efficiency to buy; the obligation scheme substitutes an administratively chosen quota for that decentralised judgement. The phase-out is gradual rather than immediate only because suppliers hold multi-year delivery commitments under the current scheme rules that should be allowed to run their course.
Átállási mechanizmus
Linear over 3 years, tracking the wind-down of in-flight supplier obligation periods. Net saving rises from 32.1 millió Ft in year 1 to the full 96.2 millió Ft in year 3.
Érintett csoportok
Energy suppliers holding obligation quotas; the matching revenue line disappears alongside the expenditure, so the fiscal effect is close to neutral.
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