BRATISLAVA, April 13, (WEBNOVINY) — RWE Gas Slovakia has identified positive developments regarding energy price regulation in Slovakia. Company’s chief executive Miroslav Kulla told journalists on Wednesday this was one of the factors that encouraged its ambition to start gas supplies to households on the local market. “We feel the effort to relax that market in some way. We can see the first hints,” Kulla noted. He added that the incumbent government pledged to improve business conditions in this area. A year ago, the gas supplier did not consider supplies to households due to the excessive price regulation by the Regulatory Office for Network Industries.
The company will strive to win as many households throughout Slovakia as possible. It will not focus solely on eastern Slovakia, where its sister company Vychodoslovenska Energetika supplies electricity. Clients from all over Slovakia are attractive and RWE Gas Slovakia wants to operate on the country’s entire territory. The firm, backed by the German energy corporate group RWE, intends to offer a 12-percent price discount to Slovak households in the first year.
RWE Gas Slovakia has already launched gas supplies to households. It has been operating on the Slovak gas market since 2008 and acquired a 25-percent share on the large-scale client market and some 8 percent in the small-scale sector in two years.
