The Ministry of Justice registered the relevant NKREKP’s resolution that amended a method for calculating costs for connecting to electric grids (160 kW – 5 MW).
From now on, there are clear criteria for specifications established for companies ordering this service and a technical specifications element to renovate networks of energy supplying organizations is excluded. The resolution will contain a simple and clear formula instead of this – the capacity specified by a customer multiplied by the connection cost rate.
The Energy Sector Head Oleksiy Orzhel said that the BRDO Office together with the MEDT and the NKREKP had promoted this initiative nearly a year, but it met with significant opposition. Therefore, the today’s registration is a significant step in reforming and simplifying the business environment.
“Energy supplying organizations have been using a concept of non-standard connection, where the cost to connect the customer’s electrical equipment was determined for each case, to connect the equipment with capacity more than 50 kW for a long time. At the same time, technical specifications to renovate networks of energy supplying organizations carried significant corruption risks. As a result, customers received unreasonable and very high connection costs in reality,” Oleksiy Orzhel commented and added that it would be very important to control establishing the rate per power unit connection when new rules to connect to electricity supply networks were adopted. Its adequate establishment is a key to the reform success.
Thus, the business can accurately estimate costs and plan future projects, in particular in case of connecting to the electrical grids.