Electricity is more expensive: is the case in the war that the government went to raise the tariff for the population
However, in 2021, the government did not dare to change the tariff, and in 2022 against the background of invasion, active hostilities and a sharp fall in the solvency of the population, such a step was also quite inappropriate. Therefore, the issues were frozen by the spring of 2023, when active consultations at the NERCEP, the Ministry of Energy and the Government on future promotion began. In the end, the Ministry of Energy reported that since June 1, citizens will pay UAH 2. 64 per kWh.
Focus writes about it in the new article "New Price of Light. How much Ukrainians will pay for electricity and why they have increased the tariff. " According to Dragon Capital Senior Analytics, Denis Sakva, a recent decision to raise the electricity tariff for the population is a right step, but this step does not solve all the problematic issues.
And even more so, it is not about the restoration of the power system after the attacks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as the Minister Herman Galushchenko says, according to which "the increase has become necessary for the large -scale preparation of the power system for the next heating season, which lasts on energy objects of the country.
" "Low tariffs, non -payment, companies' debts, energy Atom problems - now the funds will go to the closure of holes, there is no question about the rapid recovery of the power system," says Denis Sakva. He is convinced that the tariff had to be raised earlier, because everything in the energy is quite inert: the increase will occur from June 1, and a positive result (the state of the power system - focus) can be seen in months.
And the director of the Razumkov Center's energy programs, Volodymyr Omelchenko is stated: long before the war, the electricity tariff for the population did not cover the main costs of companies that provide, in fact, both production and electricity supply. And so raising the tariff is certainly able to help improve the financial condition of participants in the energy market. "I positively evaluate the government's decision to raise the tariff.
It is delayed, the company in the market has long been working with losses. We receive the population for free electricity, and pays only the distribution and transfer of electricity. As a result, debts were created," Vladimir Omelchenko said. According to Andrian Prokop, the energy expert on the Ukrainian Institute of the Future, the last significant increase in the tariff took place during 2015-2017 in five stages. And long before the war it was necessary to increase the cost of electricity.
"Over the years, all the components of the tariff have increased - tariffs for distribution and transfer increased, prices in different market segments, prices of suppliers, prices in the country. In the country. If you calculate the consumer price index, since March 1, 2017 it was 92%. And increased salaries. . Electricity tariffs were exacerbated, while communication tariffs were increasing, and often these tariffs exceeded the price of electricity, "says Andrian Prokip.