“Market Council” (the regulator of energy markets) has analyzed the wholesale prices of electricity during the quarantine. In April and may against the background of reducing the consumption of a single average price fell by 2% year-on-year. At the same time continuing to grow the share of non-market premiums in a single price associated with the commissioning of new stations and the alignment of tariffs in the far East, warn the regulator.A single wholesale price for electricity in April and may has declined by about 2% year-on-year average price zones on the background of demand reduction, told “Kommersant” in the “market Council”. In April, the average price was up 2.35 million RUB over 1 MWh, a decrease of 2% year-on-year. In may of 2.24 thousand rubles. per 1 MWh, a decrease of 1.5%.A single wholesale price consists of two parts — the cost of electricity (actually generated kilowatt-hours) and cost of capacity (fee for the readiness of generation companies to supply power to the grid).The decrease was due to deep price cuts in trading on the market for days forward (RSV, competitive sector electricity trade). In April the price dam average price zones made up 1.06 million RUB over the 1 MWh (minus 15.1 percent year-on-year) in may — 0,99 thousand rubles. per 1 MWh (minus 18.6 percent).The cost of power at the same time, on the contrary, grew. In April, the index made up 1.28 million RUB over 1 MWh, an increase of 12.3% in may — 1,25 thousand rbl. for 1 MW•h, the growth was 18%. The increase was due to the commissioning of new nuclear power plants and renewable energy sources, the growth allowances for the alignment of tariffs in the far East and Finance the construction of generation in Kaliningrad region. The current situation clearly demonstrated the danger and risks of the presence in the composition of the cost impact of various non-market allowances noted in the “market Council”. A reduction in the consumption component of such “cross-subsidization” significantly increases, which increases the incentives to transition to self-sustaining electricity. “Further increases in the cost of power due to the extension of such mechanisms will lead to the fact that a single price for buyers of electric energy will increasingly move away from fair market price level”,— emphasized in the controller.The rising price of power complained, industrial consumers, they proposed the government to cut payments in half. However, in the “market Council” think that this “no Foundation, no regulatory opportunities.” Despite the decline in consumption, the requirements for generating equipment to ensure its readiness is preserved, the cost of suppliers ‘ capacity is not reduced accordingly, the reduction in payment is unjustified and will lead to losses of power. In addition, the power supply is under long-term contracts, their commit — Garant a reliable supply for buyers, belt��or “b” in “market Council”.The level of payments in the retail energy market in January—may 2020 were higher than the same period of 2019 (98,5% versus 98,2%, respectively), they say “market Council”. However, suppliers in this case have to pay the power companies a little bit worse, the level of payments in may was lower by 2.4 percentage points (PP) year-on-year, and within five months it dropped by 0.6 p. p. In the Association of guaranteeing suppliers and energy supply companies argued that the improvement of calculations in retail does not take into account the factor of reduction of charges, the decline in productive supply in connection with the stagnation in some sectors.Pauline Smertin
