OREANDA-NEWS. October 19, 2012. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) initiated a case on violating the antimonopoly law upon some signs of violating Part 1 Article 10 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” by a group of persons comprising “Volzhskaya TGK” OJSC and “TGK-6” OJSC. The companies manipulated competitive capacity outtake for 2013 within the boundaries of “Volga” free power transfer zone by filing excessive price bids that were not economically justified, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

In September 2012 competitive capacity outtakes for 2013 took place in 23 free power transfer zones. On 24th September, the results were published on the web-site of a System Operator, according to which capacity prices in one free power transfer zone of the First Price Zone was 20% more than in other free power transfer zones: in “Volga” free power transfer zone capacity price was 153,001 Rubles/MW per month.

Analyzing the pricing factors in “Volga” free power transfer zone, FAS exposes signs of economically and technologically unjustified actions: the signs of price manipulating in this zone by the group of persons comprising “Volzhskaya TGK” OJSC and “TGK-6” OJSC. FAS informed the advisory “Market Council” Non-Commercial Partnership that is authorized to abolish competitive capacity outtakes.

On 11th October 2012, the “Market Council” Non-Commercial Partnership decided to abolish the results of the competitive capacity outtake in the First Price Zone and organize a new outtake.