Electricity bills in Greater Buenos Aires rise 3.57% on average from Sunday and gas bills 2.17% nationwide, the Energy Secretariat said, while the government holds bus fares on national lines and delays a fuel tax increase.
The electricity increase covers only customers of Edenor and Edesur in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, the one place where the national government sets the tariff; provincial regulators decide elsewhere. The Energy Secretariat put the average rise at about 1,700 pesos (US$1.10) a month, and about 1,150 pesos for three in four households. The new tariff tables were published Friday by the national gas and electricity regulator.
The government ties the monthly electricity formula to wholesale and consumer prices, and said this month’s rise reflects higher wholesale prices after the Middle East war pushed up energy costs.
Households registered in the targeted energy-subsidy scheme keep a 75% discount on the electricity price for their first 200 kilowatt-hours a month, a block the original schedule would have shrunk. In gas, those households keep a 74.25% discount on the gas price, where the schedule had the general part of the discount falling to zero. Consumption above the electricity block is billed at full price.
On buses, the Transport Secretariat agreed Thursday with operators’ chambers to raise subsidies for the 104 nationally regulated lines serving the city and its suburbs. The minimum fare stays at 742.81 pesos, and officials said it will not rise before January. Under the deal, the Secretariat will update the operators’ cost structure monthly from October to January and cover higher costs with subsidies, after the operators had warned they would cut night service. Fares on the city government’s own lines rise 3.9% on Sunday.
The government also postponed from November 1 to December 1 the pending increases in the two taxes on petrol and diesel, the liquid fuels tax and the carbon dioxide tax, under Decree 1305/2026 published Friday in the Boletín Oficial, the government’s official gazette. The fixed tax amounts are meant to be updated every quarter with inflation, and a long series of decrees has deferred the full updates. The amounts now in force run through November 30.