OREANDA-NEWS  On 05 November was announced, that Tverenergo, a subsidiary of IDGC of Centre, JSC, and JSC Tverenergosbyt developed and started performance of the Agreement of Joint Actions, informed the representatives of the network and marketing companies at joint video press conference.

First Deputy General Director Sergei Arkhipov, Deputy General Director for Development and Performance of Grid Services Vadim Fyodorov and Deputy General Director - Director of Tverenergo, an IDGC of Centre, JSC subsidiary, Sergei Yolkin took part in the conference. General Director of JSC Tverenergosbyt Valentin Maslov and Head of the Tver Regional Power Commission Oleg Nikolaevsky also took part in the conference.

Sergei Arkhipov noted that the main partner of the network company in the Tver Region has a number of problems in the retail market, and, after several working meetings with JSC Tverenergosbyt, the company made the decision to conclude a plan of joint actions and unite forces in order to solve together the issues of non-payment and losses in electric networks. 

"Efficiency of solution of the given debt issue is connected, first of all, with the approach of a hard for power engineers autumn and winter period," said First Deputy General Director. "Besides, it is possible to call financing of Tverenergo, an IDGC of Centre, JSC subsidiary, unsatisfactory and demanding strict financial intervention. The total sum of non-payment to the company has reached RUR 750m! Due to this the company is compelled, under the conditions of the hardest bank crisis under the raised rates, to use credit funds for preparation for winter. The issue is urgent and must be solved immediately."

Vadim Fyodorov said on 24 October the Regional Energy Complex Reliability Headquarters were established and considered the issues of disagreements of bad regulation of the Tver Region retail market. "The meeting passed in a complicated atmosphere. Half of disputable issues were issues of relations of market entities with the grid and power sale company," said the top manager. "Today their entity structure is very complicated: there are over ten power sale companies and over sixty network companies; for different reasons relations with some of these companies are rather tough. In our opinion, it is impossible to solve the situation without help of the administration acting as an arbitrar." 

A task group was established in the Headquarters; it will study in detail issues connected with each entity.

" We hope that the situation will improve, as there are preconditions for a productive dialogue, " said Deputy General Director for Development and Performance of Grid Services, IDGC of Centre, JSC.  

According to the head of Tverenergo, an IDGC of Centre, JSC subsidiary, Sergei Yolkin, intention to regulate the situation in the region is most serious: "It is a great advantage that we are backed by the regional administration, and today we solve these issues together with the Regional Energy Committee. The items of the contract that our company and Tverenergosbyt agreed to and signed and the items of the minutes of the last meeting have already been executed, and now we are starting, together with Tverenergosbyt, to work with the debtors who do not want to accept the conditions of the formed market in the Tver Region, and I'm sure that the result will be positive."

General Director of JSC Tverenergosbyt Valentin Maslov stated that the situation is approaching its crisis: on 1 October the consumers' debt for consumed energy was over RUR 900m. "I mean all groups of consumers," said Valentin Evgenievich. "However, I would like to single out the most difficult groups. They are territorial grid organisations (except for Tverenergo) that owe RUR 268m and also sale companies (around RUR 236m). We think that the problem may be solved. For this we have to regulate together with the Regional Energy Committee the disagreements of the past years in contract relations, plan agreements for 2009 and conclude agreements that deliver conditions for normal functioning of the energy system. It is also necessary to regulate the payment system. We have started this work and we are doing it every day together with all entities mentioned above."  

Head of the Tver Regional Energy Committee Oleg Nikolaev expressed his opinion of the situation: "We have over 70 power supply organisation, and this makes allocation of responsibility rather vague. In this country there are tendencies of integration of the grid complex in different forms - in the form of a lease, property, etc. In some regions all networks are governed by one and the same entity. However, the number of power supply organisations must be reduced in a normal way."

He also noted that, under the agreement concluded between the parties, the done work must bear fruit. "We consider that this issue must be solved, and we hope that the power system will enter winter confidently," said Head of the Tver Regional Energy Committee.  
The Agreement on Joint Actions, developped and approved by the network and sale companies, and also the Minutes of the Regional Energy Complex Reliability Headquarter contain a clear-cut plan of further regulation of the financial conflict in the Tver Region energy industry. Performance of the plan will make the companies' work stable and provide unfailing power supply to all consumers of the region.