The consumers owe OAO Tomskenergosbyt over 500 million rubles, half of this amount is owed by households, the CEO of the company Andrey Buzdalkin said on Wednesday.
“Today the consumers owe us a bit more than half a billion rubles and the household debt makes up 250 million. It is about 50%. Housing cooperatives in Tomsk owe us about 21 million rubles, managing companies — 12 million rubles”, — Buzdalkin said.
He pointed out that housing and public utilities enterprises owe the energy providers 89 million rubles, 27.6 million are owed by 90 boiler houses of the region which have been switched off electricity.
“In the housing and public utilities sphere the heating season will start only after all the debts have been cleared…The households are paying dreadfully…That’s why we take a tough stance towards the households – we cut off up to 1.5 thousand energy consumers in Tomsk monthly for failure to pay for electricity”, — Buzdalkin said.
According to his data 12 criminal cases have been filed in relation to such inflictors so far.
The authorities of Tomsk region developed an energy saving program, according to which by 2020 the energy intensity of Gross Regional Product of Tomsk region is to fall to 40% against 2007. Tomsk authorities are planning to reach their objectives by means of installing metering devices, replacing incandescent bulbs with energy-saving ones and carrying out energy audit of the buildings.
Метки: electricity, energy news - 2011, Energy Saving, Russian energy industry news, Tomskenergosbyt
