According to Yuriy Boyko, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, electricity debts of Ukrainians have increased by 15 billion hryvnia in the last two years.
The moratorium that banned electricity shutoffs in Ukraine due to public service debts during the war is no longer in effect. Therefore, the electricity of citizens who have a significant amount of debt for this public service can now be turned off. By the way, as Yuriy Boyko, advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine and member of the supervisory board of NPC Ukrenergo, told ExPro journalists, during the full-scale war the population’s electricity debt increased by 15 billion hryvnia.
According to him, we are talking specifically about home consumers.
“Too much or too little? I think it’s too much. There are a lot of areas that shouldn’t be among the biggest debtors,” he said.
Among the regions, those with the largest electricity debt are:
- Kyiv;
- Kyiv region;
- Dnepropetrovsk region;
- Kharkov region.
He also explained that the moratorium on the closure of public services should have been lifted earlier, as the state had long recovered from the shock of the war and stabilized the economy, financial and banking systems.
“My personal opinion is that the decision to lift the moratorium is overdue. It should have been made about 15 months ago,” emphasized Yuriy Boyko.
Cancellation of the moratorium: Are Ukrainians facing mass power outages?
Despite the serious level of debt of the population, oblenergos has no plans to deprive all debtors of electricity. As Oleg Datsko, head of Prikarpatenergotrade LLC, said, most of the customers who previously did not pay their bills are already agreeing to pay the debt.
“We are already feeling an influx of customers, they are coming to the service center and filling rebuilding schedules en masse,” he said.
He also noted that some businesses will still decide to cut off electricity to debtors. He believes the first shutdowns will begin in late January or early February.
Let us remind you that it was approved by the Ukrainian Council of Ministers on December 29. resolution And lifted the moratorium on the accrual of fines and collection of debts related to housing and communal services. Moreover Focus He said how many subscribers in Kiev and the Dnepropetrovsk region risk being left without electricity due to the lifting of the moratorium.
Source: Focus
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