Koncepcia boja proti energetickej chudobe bude aktualizovaná a predložená vláde do konca roka 2016. Boj s energetickou chudobou tak čaká už novú vládu.
The Regulatory Office for Network Industries would like to reflect falling gas prices on markets into gas prices for households and small companies. The series of regulated gas price reduction are likely to continue.
MPs Alojz Pridal, Julius Brocka and Juraj Mikus have proposed an ordinary fine instead of removing the annual support for those producers who fail to fulfil their reporting obligations. The Parliament has showed no understanding for their amendment to the Act on the Promotion of Renewable Energy Sources.
According to the Financial Policy Institute, the full abolition of the regulation of electricity and gas prices for Slovak households could be considered in five years. It is necessary to achieve a certain degree of change of suppliers and market concentration.
The Regulatory Office for Network Industries states that a majority of green energy manufacturers have already fulfilled their duties this year. The Office is still completing and verifying data.
While last year the Regulatory Office for Network Industries (URSO) worked with the price of 35.3072 euros per megawatt hour when setting this year’s electricity prices for households, this year it will be almost almost 2 euros less.
Currently, electricity producers are charged for the access to the grid for 30% of the installed capacity. According to a member of the board of directors of Zapadoslovenska Distribucna, Marian Kapec, it would be logical if manufacturers paid G-tariff at 100% of the installed capacity which could reduce the price of electricity for consumers.
Companies ZSE Energia, Vychodoslovenska Energetika and Stredoslovenska Energetika dominate electricity supplies and gas utility Slovensky Plynarensky Priemysel gas supplies.
The Regulatory Office for Network Industries has initiated the pricing procedure on its own initiative. The regulator refused to reveal how much gas prices for Slovak households and small businesses will decline.
Electricity producers who will decide to generate electricity via highly efficient combined heat and power in the combustion engine running on natural gas must expect lower purchase price from next year.
The Slovak Regulatory Office for Network Industries is considering introducing credit measuring systems. Electricity and gas meters would work only with prepaid credit.
Slovakia’s energy regulator is slowly working on a new regulatory policy which will come into effect in 2017. It seems that the office will regulate energy prices for households and small companies also in the new regulatory period.
Slovak employers and entrepreneurs are convinced that Slovakia has one of the highest electricity prices in the European Union. The regulatory authority denies these statements.
The Regulatory Office for Network Industries (URSO) says that there is satisfactory competition on the Slovak energy market which could lower prices of electricity or gas for households.
Ministerstvo financií SR si vie predstaviť, že v ďalšom regulačnom období, teda od roku 2016, by sa mohla regulácia cien energií minimálne znížiť, keď nie úplne zrušiť. Regulačný úrad však nevidí priestor na okamžitú dereguláciu cien energií. Stále je presvedčený, že na to nie sme pripravení.
V regióne spoločnosti ZSD si svoju oznamovaciu povinnosť voči svojej distribučnej spoločnosti či voči Úradu pre reguláciu sieťových odvetví nesplnilo celkovo 55 výrobcov zelenej elektriny.
Poslanci za SNS chcú už na nadchádzajúcej schôdzi parlamentu iniciovať zmenu programu tak, aby predseda regulačného úradu Jozef Holjenčík mohol v pléne predostrieť svoje argumenty vo veci zvyšovania cien energií.
Znenie vyhlášky, ktorú navrhuje Úrad pre reguláciu sieťových odvetví, je všeobecné a neumožňuje externú kontrolu, tvrdí Lesoochranárske zoskupenie VLK.