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The government has decided not to abandon the energy-intensive industry criticized the mechanism of differentiation of the tariff for Federal grid company (FGC), increasing rates for big business. According to “Kommersant”, the bill can be submitted to the Prime Minister Mikhail mishustina, and then send to the state Duma. If the document without obstacles will pass autumn session, the differentiation rate may begin to act already in 2021. According to “Kommersant”, the fare is proposed to increase by half in five years. But big business continues to insist on the complete abandonment of this idea.The government has accelerated the promotion of initiatives of the energy Ministry and Russian grids of differentiation of the single now rate FSK (manages main network complex, included in the “rosseti”). According to “Kommersant”, the meeting of the head of the government office Dmitry Grigorenko on 18 July, the bill generally supported in the week, presumably on July 23, the matter was considered by Mikhail mishustina, after which the document can be sent to the state Duma already in autumn session. At the meeting, according to the informants, it was decided to raise the tariff FSK at 100% for five years.Now in the rate of FSK is not enabled cross-subsidies (compensation for reduced tariffs for the population, its volume is estimated at 238 billion RUB in 2020). Because of this, the rate of FSK transmission is 0,36 Euro per 1 kWh, which is four times below the rate of electricity distribution networks on high voltage level and nine low. The energy Ministry wants to reduce this gap, gradually increasing the rate of FSK and lowering its consumers the electricity distribution networks. But large-scale industry, which accounts for up to 50% of the total consumption in the country, this initiative is actively opposed.Discussion the government had dragged on for more than two years, during which time the initiative because of complaints of the business are constantly rolled back on completion. This, however, did not stop her in January to get approval of the state Commission on legislative activities. Vladimir Sklyar from “VTB Capital” notes that currently remains unknown the mechanism for the transfer of additional income from FSK in distribution networks for proportional reductions in their tariffs. “Whether it’s a gratuitous transfer of funds or decorated in some more complex mechanism, as well as whether the transfer means is synchronized with the transition period — the questions, the answers to which are of concern to investors in the electric power network,” he says.The Ministry of energy, Ministry of Economics, FAS and “Russian grids” the outcome of the meeting did not comment on, in the office of the Prime Minister, “Kommersant” reported that the issue is not yet included in the agenda, but it is not yet fully developed. In the state Duma Committee on energy, “Kommersant” reported that waiting for the introduction of the document. On 15 July the head of the Committee Pavel Zavalny said that “although it supports the” reform of electricity, but believes the introduction of differentiation of tariff FSK and payment network reserve “flawed” because they “take effect in the short term”.Big business continues to resist the differentiation of the tariff. Thus, the “Community of energy consumers” (unites large-scale industry) has written to Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov a letter asking him to instruct the Ministry of energy to abandon the development of the bill (letter of 16 July there is a “b”). Director Vasily Kiselev notes that the benefits of its adoption for small and medium businesses will be negligible: the share of payments for electricity in the cost of goods will decrease by only 1%.The head of RSPP Alexander Shokhin in a letter to Yuri Borisov, 20 July (there is a “b”) also requests to suspend work on the bill, taking into account “the need to stabilize the economic situation and the launch of a new investment cycle.” The head of “RUSAL” (consumes 27% of production in Siberia and up to 7% production of Russia) Evgeny Nikitin, in a letter to Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov of 17 July noted that in the case of the bill for additional expenses “Rusala” in 2021-2023 years will amount to 12 billion rubles And for ten years, he writes, the aluminum industry for the transfer of overpaid about 54,2 billion rubles, which is comparable to the cost of completion of Taishet aluminium plant.Tatiana Woodpecker, Pauline Smertin