The monopoly company "DTEK Odesskie Elektrosety" reacted to the press conference held on June 10, at which representatives of the Odessa OSMD spoke about their long struggle with illegal tariffs from DTEK.
Let us remind you that as the head of the public organization "People's Bureau of Investigation" Vladimir Bukach said:
"For many years in Odessa, there has been a situation where residents of new buildings and other multi-apartment buildings are forced to overpay for electricity more than twice. And many of them don't even know about it. The reason for this is the reluctance of the DTEK company to comply with the requirements of the law and transfer the commissioned houses from the industrial tariff to the civil tariff.
As a result, residential houses that have already been rented out have been serviced for years at the rate of construction sites, which is why instead of 1 hryvnia 68 kopecks per kW, people pay two to three times more.
In its turn, DTEK reported that it is "ready to assist in the settlement of problematic issues of OSMD within the framework of its legal powers."
According to the press service of DTEK, "the establishment of tariffs is the function of NKREKU", and they do not determine tariffs for consumed electric energy.
"In order for the house to be connected to a permanent electricity supply scheme, and residents to be able to conclude direct contracts for the distribution of electricity, the developer must fulfill the obligations defined by the legislation: develop a project for the external and internal electricity supply of the residential building and coordinate it with "DTEK Odesskie Elektrosety"; will pay the cost of connection, according to the tariff established by the state regulator of the National Energy Regulatory Commission of Ukraine; build internal power supply networks and install electricity meters and current limiters. Failure to fulfill these conditions contradicts the legislation of Ukraine and does not provide conditions for safe operation of the object.
At the same time, developers often do not fulfill their obligations, because of which the tenants who already live in the houses suffer - they consume electricity at the industrial rate and do not have a high-quality electricity supply, since their houses are connected like construction sites.
DTEK stated that they already have a number of positive examples of solving such problems, therefore, if necessary, they are ready to initiate negotiations with the developer and provide any advisory assistance to OSMD representatives.
On the other hand, Yury Zvelendovsky, an expert in the field of housing and communal services and head of the Dvor-12 OSMD, explained that the scale of the problems is even greater than it seems at first glance and how they are voiced in DTEK: "The problems voiced are not unique - but DTEK has not wanted to solve them for years . For example, those houses that are put into operation, receive a declaration of completion of construction, create OSMD and immediately face the impossibility of concluding individual contracts with oblenergo. There they refer to the fact that certain technical conditions are allegedly not met, without arguing this in any way. And the tenants of new buildings have been paying for years not according to the usual tariff of 1 hryvnia. 68 kopecks, but what a construction site. The next layer of problems is the lack of a normal format for the relationship between the OSMD and the power supply company. Recently, there was a trial about which my colleague Olga Cheban spoke. We won it and DTEK was forced to withdraw its application. We were able to prove the fraud of the energy companies, as they forced tenants to pay twice for the same kilowatts."
"The following problem arises when the meter, which calculates electricity, is installed with a 300/5 current transformer, and Oblenergo documents it as a 400/5 current transformer, which is why the increasing factor is not multiplied by 60, and by 80. This was the case, for example, at the "Tiras" housing complex, where inflated bills in three years already reached 200 hryvnias, which were overpaid by the tenants.
It also happens that the meter is located in a transformer substation, where there is no access to OSMD representatives. For example, this is the situation in the "Odessky Dvor" OSMD on ul. General Tsvetaeva, Representatives of residents cannot get there, and the bills that are sent to them are 2-3 times higher than the amount of real consumption.
We were forced to turn to the People's Bureau of Investigation, because our appeals to all authorities did not lead to anything," Yuriy Zvelendovsky noted.
He also cited figures showing how beneficial the current state of affairs is for DTEK Odessa Electric Networks.
"Simple statistics. Not so long ago, there was a differentiated tariff, when people paid 100 kopecks for the consumption of up to 90 kilowatts, and 1 hryvnia for more than 68 kilowatts. 1 kopecks. But in the absence of individual contracts, people paid 68 kopecks for 30 hryvnia, even up to one hundred kilowatts. DTEK illegally received from 50 to 8 thousand hryvnias per month only from one residential complex. And in Odessa there are more than XNUMX thousand residential apartment buildings - calculate the benefits yourself," the expert emphasized.
