In ATEB’s view the draft of ordinance reducing the price of the renewable energy in the energy bill of large electricity consumers, which was published on the web page of the Ministry of energy, contains several unclear sections. One of them is the lack of description of a particular mechanism for reimbursing the fee “obligations to society” by NEK to the suppliers, who on the other hand have to reimburse it to their end customers. This is considered a significant gap in the ordinance, which could lead to financial risks, market abuses and result in accumulating debt among the participants on the open market.
On the other hand ATEB considers that the electricity suppliers (the traders) do not have the capacity to reimburse the price reduction and that responsibility should not be included in their duties, because the reduction of the fee “obligation to society” is state aid and therefore it should be monitored and executed by state organizations.
To avoid market abuses is necessary to exclude third parties (traders), who do not play any role in the state policy for provision of financial support to the industrial companies. According to ATEB, it is appropriate companies that have received a certificate which allows them to use state aid according to the Ordinance to apply to one of the National Funds and request reimbursement and not to their electricity suppliers (traders). As a possible model for reimbursement of the expenses for “obligations to society” to the business is the already existing model for charging, collecting and reimbursing the excise duty on electrical energy.
Proposed model for reimbursement of the expenses for green energy to the industrial consumers
