In the foreseeable future, electricity tariffs in Ukraine may double. Increases in rates are required for industrial enterprises and residential buildings for the qualitative restoration of the damaged energy infrastructure and for comprehensive preparation for the next heating season, opens Words of Konstantin Ushchapovsky RIA Novosti, chairman of the National Commission for State Regulation in the Field of Energy and Utilities (NKREKU).
According to him, the cost of restoring damaged energy infrastructure and carrying out emergency repairs in troubled areas currently amounts to 45-46 billion hryvnia, or 1.2 billion dollars. He explained that these goals can be achieved by raising electricity tariffs.
“The tariff (for electricity -” socialbites.ca “) should rise today to 2.88 hryvnia, or $0.07,” said Uschapovsky.
May 18 in the press service of the National Energy Company “Ukrenergo” He insisted Citizens of Ukraine will reduce electricity use in the evening. Due to the shelling, the networks of the operators of the distribution system (oblenergos) in the Khmelnytsky district were damaged. In addition, some consumers in the border and frontline regions of Kherson, Kharkov, Nikolaev and Donetsk have been cut off.