“Sibir’Energo” will pay 200 million Rubles for abusing its dominance on the market of electric power

“Sibir’Energo” OJSC abused its dominance on the market of electric power by refusing, without any economic or technological reasons, to introduce changes to the contract with “SPAS-Dom” Managing Company” CJSC. Such actions of Sibir’Energo” OJSC infringed the interests of consumers – residents of apartment blocks.
Instead of calculating consumption of electric power in the public spaces (corridors, basements, flights of stairs) of apartment blocks in Novosibirsk using measuring devices or applying the norms for consuming utility services for electric power supply, “Sibir’Energo” OJSC made calculations on the basis of connected capacity and the number of work hours of electric power devices within 24 hours per day.
Elena Tsyshevskaya, Deputy Head of the OFAS Department for Control over Electric Power Industry, commented the decision of Novosibirsk FAS Russia to impose the fine upon “Sibir’Energo” OJSC: “These actions of the energy supplier are totally against the provisions and standards of the antimonopoly law and the law on energy saving and increasing efficiency of energy consumption. Currently FAS Russia and its regional offices have strengthened enforcement of the law on energy saving and increasing efficiency of energy consumption over economic entities. We believe that it is most important to suppress actions of energy supplies that abuse their market dominance so we can prevent infringing the interests of the residents of apartment blocks”.