LPG Discount Voucher: more than 1 million families will have access to cheap gas by 2023

The Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) reported that the program LPG Discount Voucherwhich allows a discount of S/25 on the purchase of a domestic gas cylinder, will reach more than 1 million homes nationwide and will include the distribution of kitchen kits to ensure that more families have cheap gas and stop using firewood and solid fuels that harm their health.

The LPG Discount Voucher program, financed with resources from the Social Energy Inclusion Fund (FISE), promotes the replacement of polluting solid fuels such as coal, firewood or dung and others, used mainly by highly vulnerable families that are exposed to respiratory illnesses continuous or chronic

According to the 2012 INEI National Household Survey, 95.1% of families in extreme poverty, as well as 64.8% in conditions of non-extreme poverty, used solid fuels more frequently. This indicator was reduced by up to 20% by 2021, which shows the contribution of the program to improve the quality of life of these citizens.

By November 2022, the LPG Discount Voucher has benefited 940,978 families, and is distributed to serve homes, soup kitchens, community kitchens and public educational institutions. 78% of its beneficiaries are households in poverty and vulnerability, located in areas without access to natural gas.

By 2023, in addition to increasing program coverage, It is expected to approve the increase in the economic value of the LPG Discount Voucher to S/43 for the provinces where natural gas deposits are located in production and S/63 for the district of Megantoni and Kumpirishiato in the province of La Convención, in Cusco.

The Minem, in its capacity as administrator of FISE, ratified that it assumes the commitment to strengthen social-energy programs with the aim that more Peruvians have the necessary support to meet their energy needs, contribute to their basic family basket and promote the economic revival.