10.11.2026 11:04
After EPDK lowered the subsidized tariff limit for households from 4,000 kilowatt-hours to 3,000 kilowatt-hours annually starting next year, former Head of EPDK's Audit Department Mehmet İbiş calculated its impact on bills. According to İbiş, residential subscribers with annual consumption between 3,000 and 4,000 kilowatt-hours will face increases of 82% to 96%, and the common electricity expenses of sites and apartment buildings will also rise by the same rate.
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Mehmet İbiş, former Head of the Audit Department at the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EPDK), calculated one by one the impact on bills of reducing the annual threshold for benefiting from the subsidized tariff in households to 3,000 kilowatt-hours. İbiş stated that residential subscribers in this group would face a 96 percent increase, and emphasized that a possible increase in the energy charge in the new year would inflate bills even further.
The EPDK, which announced the limit on state support applied to residential subscribers' electricity consumption, reduced the annual electricity consumption limit set for residential subscribers to benefit from the support from 4,000 kilowatt-hours to 3,000 kilowatt-hours, effective from the new year.
A BILL OF 10,876 LIRA WILL EXCEED 21,000 LIRA
Mehmet İbiş shared with ANKA News Agency his calculation regarding the impact of this practice on the electricity bills of millions of residential subscribers. İbiş noted that subscribers whose annual consumption is above 3,000 kilowatt-hours consume electricity under the Last Resort Supply Tariff (SKTT), and that one of the factors affecting the bill of a residential subscriber covered by this tariff is the YEKDEM cost.
İbiş said, "In this context, when YEKDEM is zero, the bill of a residential subscriber consuming 3,200 kilowatt-hours of electricity annually will rise from 10,876 TL to 19,888 TL, an increase of 82 percent. The December 2026 YEKDEM is 393.75 TL per megawatt. Assuming this amount remains the same in January 2027, the bills of subscribers in this group will rise from 10,876 TL to 21,413 TL, an increase of 96 percent."
IF A HIKE COMES, BILLS WILL SWELL EVEN MORE
The government's year-end 2027 inflation target is 21 percent. Therefore, an increase in electricity and natural gas prices in 2027 at this rate or slightly above this rate is seen as certain.
İbiş, pointing out that if there are changes in energy and distribution charges, the bills of residential subscribers excluded from support will swell even more, said, "A residential consumer with annual consumption of 3,000-4,000 kilowatt-hours will face an increase of between 82 percent and 96 percent because they fall into the Last Resort Supply Tariff group, even if there is no change in the energy charge and distribution charges. If the energy charge and distribution charge increase, their bills will naturally swell even further."
SITE DUES WILL ALSO INCREASE
İbiş, noting that the decision regarding 3,000 kilowatt-hours will also affect site dues, continued his remarks as follows:
"When the consumption of apartment buildings and independent units within apartment buildings, housing cooperatives and housing estates, as well as shared areas such as heating, elevators, booster pumps, staircase lighting automatons, janitor's apartments and similar common-use areas whose consumption is measured by separate meters, exceeds 3,000 kilowatt-hours annually, the electricity cost in common expenses will also increase by between 82 percent and 96 percent."