Putin ordered to keep electricity prices 20% lower than in China.
Kommersant writes about it with reference to sources.
According to the newspaper's interlocutors, Putin gave this instruction following a meeting at the Eastern Economic Forum. The government must guarantee the difference when preparing a general outline for the placement of electricity facilities until 2042.
In the final price for consumers, Kommersant explains, the government will have to include the cost of energy from new power plants and its transmission through networks. The construction and modernization of power plants and networks until 2042 will cost about 57 trillion rubles.
It has not yet been decided where this money will come from. Today, new power plants are built mainly due to levies in the wholesale energy market, which raise prices for consumers.
According to the Ministry of Energy, with such financing, the price of electricity can double by 2042 - from 6.4 rubles per kilowatt-hour in 2024 to 12.8 rubles.
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