The Borg crisis on the electricity market in Ukraine is fading into the future and is creating serious disruptions both for the operation of energy companies and for obtaining new investments from the sector.
RBC-Ukraine reports this from the application of the Honored Energy Minister of Ukraine, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Minister of Energy of Ukraine in 2020 Olga Buslavets,
“Unfortunately, in the market of electrical energy – our reality has already become a lot of rocks. And it is growing, it is not growing, unfortunately. Obviously, there is still a great barrier to investment in the energy sector. It is understandable that we simply desperately need investment,” she said.
Buslavets said that one of the key reasons for the accumulation of debts is the presence of a category of chronic non-payers who cannot be turned off.
“Well, who is it? These are water utilities, heat utilities, mines, strategic enterprises that cannot be connected according to any regulatory documents that the state has adopted. But for which the state, unfortunately, has not yet found either a mechanism or a device financing of such enterprises,” she added.
Non-payments, in other words, create a Lanzugian reaction of the Borgs, which consumes all segments of the market – from postal workers to system operators.
“It’s not just the electricity supply companies who are causing problems, but also the grid companies. Ukrenergo, which operates the transmission of electricity, Oblenergo. And they, in turn, are fighting according to Lanzug to everyone else,” Buslavets said.
Vaughn pointed the butt of the system operator Ukrenergo, who was charged tens of billions of hryvnias for balancing, dispatching, and transmitting electricity.
“This stink cannot cover the very same generation of vital energy sources, what is put on them. This is due through the tariff,” explained the exminister.
Apparently, at the hour of discussion, members of the Timing Investigative Committee of the Verkhovna Rada came up with a road map that would regulate systemic technical and financial problems and allow the situation to stabilize from the borgs to the market.
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