The new burning season is preparing new unpleasant surprises for us. Utilities do not spend a penny on adding gas to generate heat and hot water, nor do they know how to supply the heat.
“Thermal and communal energy (CHE) enterprises do not know what will happen in a month, when the burning season resumes. Who will supply the gas, on what mind? And when the gas supply starts again in manual mode: I will give it to you, but I won’t give it to you, because you have a larger demand for gas. Perhaps, as a result of a regulation, “Naftogaz of Ukraine” will supply gas to all municipal enterprises during the cold weather,” says Arsentiy Blashchuk, president of the Ukrteplokomunenergo association.
None of the communal enterprises have lost all their money, they are forced to work on a 3-4 day schedule, and they don’t have money to pay salaries to healthcare workers. “As a result, a pre-strike situation has developed at large enterprises,” said Arsentiy Blashchuk. І tse – before the burning season.
Paradoxically, despite the sharp increase in utility tariffs and gas prices for households, the cost of heat and hot water generators (TKE) for gas in the early spring of 2015 hit Naftogaz of Ukraine, having dropped as much as 15 billion UAH (borg together with industrial associates - 20,7 billion UAH). The largest borzhnik is the capital company PJSC "Kyivenergo" - 2,5 billion UAH, of which 1,6 billion is the borzhnik for gas, which is in line with this fate.
And all of this is due to the fact that it is not just the Ukrainians, but also budgetary organizations - schools, hospitals, kindergartens, which are responsible for transferring the necessary sums from the budget to pay for housing and communal services.
Residents will not be required to pay insurance for their utility services, as utility companies are likely to increase their gas consumption. With the onset of the cold crisis of non-payments, they will suffer at times, and even the right blow to their guts will be felt by the residents of the beginning of leaf fall, when the first payments for the new burning season are withdrawn. Then, in the spring, energy prices will increase by 3-6 times. Forecasts from outside: the Borg flywheel will start working with new force.
Apparently, the TKE gas borgs are growing sharply in front of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine, even as the company is already not spending money on adding gas for pumping into the underground tunnels (they are half empty) for the duration of the winter dehumidifying season and ensuring reliable transit of Russian gas to European countries. Therefore, pumping is expected to be at a great rate: before the start of the burning season, it was planned to accumulate 19 billion cubic meters, and now Naftogaz is planning to pump at least 16 billion cubic meters by the 15th of today.
Domestic gas borgs are plaguing Ukraine, and new positions have been taken from European creditors - by the end of spring, EBRD directors are considering the possibility of seeing a loan for the purchase of gas in the amount of $300 million. Another $200 million "Naftogaz" The insurance company is being separated from the IFC. Once these funds are given, Ukraine will be able to pre-pay to buy more Russian gas. In the meantime, we only import gas from the EU, but there is not enough of it.
This is how Ukraine’s utility and gas problem looks, and if we get a little deeper, the problem of manipulating the gas balance immediately arises.
Does the order manipulate the gas balance?
Should I turn off the gas for the winter? “We constantly sense different numbers. Is it possible that we are rich enough to have a reserve of 19 billion cubic meters? Perhaps we need to import less expensive gas? In order to eliminate the pressure on this supply, the government must first balance the actual balance of gas for 8 months,” said MP Alona Babak on Wednesday 8th at the round table “One Hundred Days Before Winter.”
Alona Babak is the patron of the head of the parliamentary Committee for the nutrition of everyday life, housing and communal services, and we cannot ignore the information about the actual balance of gas, although such data must be observed. shomisyatsya or shokvartal. “This is all about the daily government policy in utility and gas problems. In the meantime, if gas prices have risen, they have announced that they will use a tool called the balance of gas production and distribution in Ukraine - in order to look at prices and tariffs in different ways. change your mind on the gas market,” Alona Babak guessed.
The balance of production and distribution of gas is due to information about how much gas is produced in Ukraine (and the volume of Ukrainian fuel is 7-10 times lower than imported), how much gas is imported, as well as How much gas is distributed quarterly? This document was confirmed by a resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers, but nothing could be published after the official statement.
The order of obligations is to re-examine the balance of gas in accordance with the fact of this agreement. “8 months have already passed. In addition, in the first quarter of the last burning season, during the current year of 2015, the supply of gas to the population decreased by 10%, which was equal to the obligation confirmed by the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers prior to the production and distribution of gas. This means that we are less able to buy expensive imported gas, and we may also be able to buy dry gas. It’s our fault that we were charged much less money for gas than we were charged before,” said Alona Babak.
Before the speech, over 8 months, Ukraine increased its gas consumption by 21,6% (5,3 billion cubic meters), equal to the same period in 2014 – to 19,3 billion cubic meters, reports the Ministry of Energy.
According to the Central Bank, gas imports decreased by 30,5% (by 4,4 billion cubic meters) over 6 months – to 10 billion cubic meters. Aside from the general increase in gas prices and tariffs for utility services, the residents never got around to it.
It’s also not surprising that Yulia Tymoshenko went to the General Prosecutor’s Office to set gas tariffs and other housing and utility services, which she respects with protection. “A special working group at the Verkhovna Rada has compiled a report about the fact that the establishment of tariffs for heat and other services is extremely unfair... I prepared the report to the General Prosecutor’s Office, I have in my hands statements about the evil that The high-powered planters, who inadvertently took part in the formation of unregulated heat tariffs and gas prices for the population of Ukraine,” Tymoshenko said.
It is completely clear that the district does not intend to maintain the balance of gas, and this could even become a basis for reinstatement of tariffs. It is clear that those who cannot see the prospects of cooperating with monopoly suppliers of heat, gas, water and electricity will be able to overcome, and even then, additional reserves will be identified for the streamlining of tariffs due to increase.
Economically unregulated tariffs are a source of corruption
Government subsidies to compensate utility companies for the difference in tariffs have long been a strong incentive for the development of corruption in the utility and gas sector, which stems from the establishment of economically non-reimbursable tariffs.
In 2014, subsidies in the amount of 13,8 billion hryvnias were transferred to the state treasury (with the rewards of the government for their achievements). There weren’t a lot of money left, so at the beginning of 2015 the state forfeited 5,5 billion UAH to utility companies.
However, looking at the fact that in the 2015 budget more than 2,9 billion UAH were seen in subsidies, it becomes obvious that all utilities will not be able to pay off the debts. Therefore, the surplus of UAH 2,6 billion, it seems, will flow into the 2016 budget - plus the national borgs will add up to this amount.
What is the secret of corruption schemes? According to this information, the author seems to have seen one of the huge waste of housing and communal services enterprises: “In order to write off the gas exchanges, we had to give 10% of the withdrawals to the Naftogaz of Ukraine company.” Since our borg paid 200 million UAH for gas, we had to pay 20 million in cash, and in addition, the gas workers wrote off our borgs. Where should I take this cash? We have had occasion to collect pennies from the population's payments. That’s why we have leaky pipes, completely depreciated boilers and other equipment.”
As a rule, such schemes “destroy” the beast, eliminating quite a few “drop-offs”. It’s probably too early to talk about the fact that corruption in housing and communal services has been completely eliminated, even if “observers” cannot “cut the trigger that lays golden eggs.”
At the well-known round table, utility workers again stated that the current tariffs for housing and communal services services are less than 90% consistent with their production, but they also amusingly stated that there are no plans to increase tariffs yet. Therefore, government subsidies in the budget for 2016 may be transferred.
However, the information about economically unreimbursed tariffs is simply shocking, and even the Ukrainians have not been able to cope with the blow to the Hamarians due to sharp increases in tariffs for utility services throughout the rest of the year, as immediately It turned out that the current tariffs again do not cover the competitiveness of their production.
It is completely obvious that this is a unique problem, and not all utility companies have their investment development programs approved by the government regulator, so it would be possible to completely change expenses in thermal measures - and the stink in several times more than the established norm. No one is in a hurry to liquidate this “black shit.”
According to the data of NKREKP, 127 of 181 municipal licensee enterprises do not have such programs. But this does not agree with the established objectively regulated tariffs, which directly affect the economy of enterprises.
Therefore, the differences in tariffs will continue to accumulate for a long time. Currently, utility companies are increasing their bids for gas from the Naftogaz of Ukraine company. Ostannya knew a way to make money from these borgs.
Financial sanctions on government subsidies
It is completely obvious that the obviousness of the unknown difference in tariffs from the state budget makes it necessary to make a decision to block Naftogaz, fine it this amount and impose sanctions on public utilities for enterprises. Ale Naftogaz of Ukraine fines utility companies.
“Since the power has adopted such a policy that it will not establish a tariff on equal economically charged expenditures, it said that it will bear the difference in tariffs for the price, but did not give, as it has the right to wave its other hand to allow another “Should we impose penalties that impose taxes on the tax payer?” Babak said.
Fines amount to 10% of the amount of accumulated debt, which, up to the point, amounts to tens of millions of hryvnias. Who is responsible for paying these fines and final court decisions? Looking at those who are in charge of communal enterprises in territorial communities, fines have to be paid from local budgets, as tax payers say. Also, doctors have to pay fines for their services.
However, neither the Ministry of Energy, nor NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine do not plan to exclude the provision for penalties from standard contracts with utility companies. The deputies plan to liquidate such an unreasonable lawmaker - the final bill No. 2706 has already been registered with parliament - they plan to defend the imposition of fines until the state repays its debts to municipal authorities enterprises.
And although the deputies would like to confirm that Naftogaz’s fines began to stagnate recently, in fact there were a few fatalities. History to finish tsikava.
The conflicts between gas workers in the Naftogaz of Ukraine group and utility companies are regulated by a standard agreement approved by the Cabinet of Ministers. Apart from the help of cunning machinations in conjunction with the regulations, which led to Naftogaz initiating changes to the standard agreement, imposing sanctions on utilities.
The total amount of imposed fines already amounts to tens of billions of hryvnias - Naftogaz “extorts” these pennies from the utility companies through the courts, and paying for everything is the end of the company, and the tax payer.
Unless corruption schemes are eliminated, which allow billions of hryvnias to be stolen quickly from the gas industry and utility companies, we can talk about the establishment of “savvy” tariffs for residents.
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