New state regulation model: to increase gas tariffs and electricity will be without correction for actual inflation

Long -term gas and electricity tariffs in the Russian Federation will be indexed according to planned inflation, without regular recalculation based on the actual increase in consumer prices, reports Prime .

“It was decided that we will focus on the price-kap, on the maximum inflation indexation calculated by the level of consumer prices, but by planned inflation, that is, without regular recalculation of planned inflation to the actual,” said the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, according to the results of the meeting, the Prime Minister for the Tariff Policy Policy Policy energy.

According to him, the Ministry of Economic Development will have to prepare the relevant proposals for the period until 2030. The model laid in them is based on guaranteeing companies with a large volume of investment programs the necessary return on investments due to long -term tariff regulation.

True, as the Minister of Energy Alexander Novak explained after the meeting after the meeting, while this issue is being discussed. Dmitry Medvedev during a meeting on a long -term tariff policy in energy on Wednesday complained that there is currently no base for long -term regulation of tariffs for transportation through trunk networks for independent gas producers.

The authorities of the Russian Federation froze tariffs for gas, electricity and freight railway transportation for industry for 2014. In the next two years, they will increase to inflation of the previous year. Tariffs for the population for all three years are indexed according to the "Inflation minus" formula - at the level of inflation of the previous year with a lowering factor of 0.7.