The volume of non-market allowances for the construction of power plants for the first time exceeded the payments business in lower tariffs for the population. This year, the strain on energy investment programmes will reach 615 billion rubles, and the social subsidies amount to 446 billion rubles, according to KPMG. Experts propose to reduce the support of the population, directing the money to build modern power plants and support energy-intensive businesses. But regulators are skeptical.The total volume of non-market burden on consumers of electricity in 2020 reached a record level of 1.09 trillion, an increase of 220% over the past five years, according to the KPMG survey. The structure of the load for the first time has changed — instead of social programs to the fore the payments business for the construction of new generation. The total size of the non-market premiums on the wholesale energy market has reached 615 billion rubles, while the volume of cross-subsidies (paid consumers for lower tariffs) — 446 billion rubles in 2015 the amount of cross-subsidies increased by 80%, analysts say. The business pays for a reduced network and wholesale prices for households, municipal consumers, and the consumers of several regions, including the North Caucasus, Tuva, Karelia, and Buryatia. The main social burden (81%) falls on commercial and industrial customers, and only to a small extent on generating companies that sell electricity and power to the population at subsidized regulated contracts.Investment burden grows even faster in 2015 it has increased by 244%. The major share (244 bn) is a premium for new thermal power plants built under the capacity supply contracts, even a total of 267 billion roubles for nuclear power plants, hydroelectric and renewable energy (RES). While more than 98 billion rubles falls on the new non-market payments for the alignment of tariffs in the far East, the construction of generation in Kaliningrad, Crimea and Taman, and so on.According to the analysts of KPMG, the distribution of cross-subsidization needs to be changed. They propose to build more efficient and environmentally friendly NPP, and RES stations with steam and gas installations that will raise the investment burden on the market to 1.5 trillion rubles by 2030. But it is necessary to reduce the amount of social support to 656 billion rubles, leaving only the targeted subsidy for the population. But discounts will start to receive energy-intensive consumers, infrastructure organizations, as well as exporters, including energy efficiency. Abroad cross-subsidies is an important instrument of management of the industry and a mechanism to achieve strategic development objectives: competitive advantages in export markets, the elimination of energy poverty, technological development and decarbonization of the economy, said partner KPMG in Russia and the CIS Vasily Savin.The idea expected supports a major industry. “The situation in the industry due to rising “crossroads”, including various allowances, becomes poorly managed, and the effectiveness of “helicopter” money is incomparable with targeted or targeted approach. Structurally, the developed foreign economies have become post-industrial, but they value their energy-intensive industry. Don’t see any reason why we should act differently”, says Alexander Starchenko, the head of “Community of energy consumers”.According to the “market Council” (the regulator of energy markets), the volume of cross-subsidization included in the network tariffs in 2020 amounts to 237 billion rubles on the wholesale market, the volume of subsidies among consumer groups in 2019 was estimated at 185 billion rubles In “market Council” told “Kommersant” that I consider the strange idea of the fight against cross-subsidization through the establishment of new subsidized groups of consumers: “Much better from a systemic point of view it would be the release of electricity from Finance related industries and reducing current levels of cross-subsidies, rather than shifting his burden on small and medium businesses.” To reduce cross-subsidization of tariffs for the population, according to the regulator, can be used regulatory experience in the Crimea, where such tariffs differenziata consumption.Pauline Smertin
