Companies@UA: База компаний Украины

Kyiv, July 28 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The National Electricity Regulatory Commission of Ukraine (NERC) has approved retail tariffs for energy supply companies for August 2009.

The tariffs are stipulated by NERC resolution No. 848 of July 22, 2009, the text of which has been sent to Interfax-Ukraine.

Retail tariffs for first class electricity consumers from August 1, 2009, will be 43.59 kopecks per kilowatt-hour (not including VAT), and for second class electricity consumers 58.46 kopecks per kilowatt-hour (not including VAT).

Retail tariffs for first- and second-class electricity consumers next month will not change compared to the tariffs for July.

As reported, NERC Head Valeriy Kalchenko in early December 2008 said that the commission, according to the recommendations of the president and government, was not intending to review electricity pries for all groups of consumers until April 2009. Later it was decided not to increase the retail tariffs of regional electricity companies until October 2009.

The NERC carries out state regulation of the activity of natural monopolists in the sphere of electric energy and the oil and gas complex. It also conducts price and tariff policy in these spheres.