The Government of Ukraine has canceled the preferential tariff for electricity for the population. The meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers was broadcast on the official YouTube – the KabMin channel.
Previously, residents paid 0.9 hryvnia per kWh for the first 100 kWh. Now all electricity will cost 1.68 hryvnia per kWh (4.36 rubles). The new rules will take effect on January 1, 2021.
Acting Minister of Energy Yuriy Vitrenko , formerly the executive director of Naftogaz of Ukraine. “The project Ministry of Energy for special obligations in the electricity market provides for an extension from January 1 to March 31, 2021 special obligations, the establishment for the period until March 31 of a fixed price for residential consumers in the amount of 1.68 hryvnia kW / h with VAT, “Vitrenko said, presenting the project.
In April, the National Energy Commission of Ukraine took a decision to suspend imports of electricity from Russia and Belarus due to the coronavirus epidemic.
In December 2019, Ukraine adopted a bill that amends the law “On the Electricity Market”. In particular, it provides for a ban on the import of electricity from Russia under bilateral agreements. According to the Deputy Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine Vitaly Shubin, the country will be ready to join the energy system of Europe and will no longer depend on Russia in the next three years.