{"id":65884,"date":"2025-08-14T07:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/65884\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T07:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:36:11","slug":"portuguese-opting-for-the-free-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/65884\/","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese opting for the free market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to data from the Energy Services Regulatory Authority (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.erse.pt\/inicio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ERSE<\/a>), the free electricity market gained more than 9,560 customers in June, compared to May, while the regulated market lost 2,730 customers, for a total of 829,104.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of June, consumption in the free market represented 94.9% of total consumption recorded in mainland Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of market share, EDP Comercial maintained its position as the leading operator in the free market in terms of the number of customers (59.8%) and consumption (37.2%). In the industrial customer segment, EDP remained the supplier with the largest share of consumption (26%), and Iberdrola the leader in supplying large consumers (26%).<\/p>\n<p>In the case of natural gas, the free market recorded a cumulative number of over 1.1 million customers in June, a net increase of 342 compared to May.<\/p>\n<p>In the regulated market, there are now 631 fewer customers than in the previous month, for a total of 437,352.<\/p>\n<p>Global monthly natural gas consumption was 2,506 GWh, approximately 1% below the May figure and 3.5% below the June 2024 figure. Free market consumption represented approximately 95% of total consumption in mainland Portugal in the month under review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to data from the Energy Services Regulatory Authority (ERSE), the free electricity market gained more than 9,560&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-65884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}