Russia plans to build new power transmission lines, and more than one trillion rubles are needed for this by 2032. Previously, networks were built at the expense of the electricity transmission tariff, but now they have decided to get money differently. "Kommersant" revealed the details.
Previously, new power transmission lines were paid for from the transmission tariff. This is the part of the electricity bill that everyone has in their receipt. It is not for the electricity itself, but for its delivery through wires.
Now "Rosseti" will receive a separate surcharge on the wholesale market, where power plants sell electricity to large buyers. Factories and plants will pay for it.
"Rosseti" will also have their tariffs increased through additional coefficients. The whole scheme is similar to the old mechanism by which power plants were built earlier – investors erected infrastructure, and the payment was distributed through increased payments on the wholesale market. Now they want to apply the same method to power grids. A government commission will decide which projects to build.
To make "Rosseti" earn even more, their payment for power reserve will be increased – this is when networks keep a reserve in case everyone turns on the lights and appliances at once. How much will be added is still unknown.
At the same time, the mechanism by which electricity losses in networks – electricity that "evaporates" on the way from the station to the house – are compensated by an increasing coefficient will be extended until the end of 2032. Previously, it was used to pay for supplies to new regions: the coefficient was 1.1203, now it will be 1.2. Simply put, more will be paid for losses.
Rosseti themselves promise that the money from the new surcharge will go only to specific projects: the government will approve what to spend on and within what timeframe. Additionally, the company needs more than 100 billion rubles per year until 2032.