Grazie, it is my understanding that the increase is not retroactive ( the few people I know that already got their bill saw an increase for the current period ) I hope Consumer´s Defense associations do something about this: I am not paying the electricity increase under protest and certainly will not pay this one either unless they are legal ( both increases were imposed by the government and not approved by the Congress and that is illegal! )Grazie said:nikad, the increase was approved in 2008, I was told. Do you know if they (utilities company) will charge us back of what the difference is of those bills we already paid in 2008 til now?