The Russian government has approved measures that will encourage regions to transfer the population to new electricity tariffs that will increase as consumption increases. The relevant decision was published on the portal “Official publication of legal acts”.
According to the document, from 2024 regional governments will have to do this if they want to increase payments from businesses in order to reduce tariffs on the population. Currently, electricity tariffs in the Russian Federation are artificially restricted and below the economically justified level. The regulator transfers part of the load to the industrial tariff. So business subsidizes the population. Each region has a maximum level of such cross-subsidies. In 2023, the government allowed regions to cross the border.
It follows from the document that an alternative to the transition of regions to a new mechanism would be to subsidize the tariff for the population from their budgets.
Before that, Kommersant newspaper WroteThat some regions of the Russian Federation may need to change electricity tariffs in 2024. According to the publication, such a requirement may be imposed on the regions by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). We are talking about nine constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Authorities sharply increased electricity tariffs for businesses, but did not provide preferential consumption limits for residents.
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