40 million rubles returned to the company’s budget for eight months of this year.
Losses in the amount of 385 thousand rubles were recovered by Lipetskenergo’s lawyers from a large poultry farm. The company entered into an agreement for connection to the grid of Rosseti Centre. For its implementation, the power engineers constructed two kilometres of power lines, installed a 10/0.4 kV transformer substation. At the same time, the poultry farm did not connect to the grid at the end, did not pay for the work performed. The power engineers had to recover money through the court. For eight months of this year, Lipetskenergo’s lawyers won 25 lawsuits against legal entities in the amount of 38 million rubles.
The branch also carries out systematic work to collect debts from individuals. So, a resident of Lev-Tolstovsky district owed 137 thousand rubles to the power engineers. For five months he used electricity in his house without signing an electricity supply contract. This fact was revealed during the power engineers’ raid. The man voluntarily refused to pay for 61 thousand kWh. He referred to the fact that he did not live in the house, but was doing repairs. The branch “Rosseti Centre Lipetskenergo” was forced to refer to a court, which ordered the consumer to pay for the consumed electricity. In addition, the man will have to pay a state fee of 3,948 rubles. Since the beginning of the year, Lipetskenergo has recovered through the court debts from 86 residents of the Lipetsk region.
“In our time it is unprofitable to accumulate debts for electricity. In addition to lengthy lawsuits, unscrupulous consumers are expected to pay state fees and court costs. Debtors’ bank accounts are seized, they are deprived of the right to travel abroad. The easiest way to avoid all these troubles is to transfer meter readings every month and pay receipts without delay,” Maria Pysenkova, a leading specialist of the legal support department of the branch “Rosseti Centre Lipetskenergo”, explained the consequences of bad faith payment.
In total, for 8 months of this year, Lipetskenergo’s lawyers won 111 lawsuits to collect receivables totalling more than 40 million rubles.
*- From June 2019, all companies of the transmission and distribution grid complex in corporate and marketing communications, as well as on all corporate identity carriers will use the new name containing the Rosseti trademark and regional or functional binding.