industryterm:electricity distribution

Price of electricity increases by 68 percent in 2015
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Despite the fact that the cost of generating electricity fell in 2015, electric bills did not go down in line with the decrease due to the increasing expenses of distribution, a hike in the illegal electricity usage charge and the cost of meter reading.

According to a recent report released by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, the cost of energy usage, which comprises the main pricing item in electricity bills, steadily declined in 2015.

However, those secondary items such as distribution steadily increased, prompting electricity distribution companies to steadily raise the electricity usage price by 38 percent. In addition to the increase stemming from the distribution expenses, extra payments in bills due to the illegal use of electricity saw a 65 increase in price

Bien que combattus, heureusement qu’il reste des usagers illégaux d’électricité sinon je ne vois pas comment le gouvernement turc pourrait justifier les hausses de prix de l’énergie.... libéralisation des marchés et diminution des subventions peut-être ?

#Electricité #Turquie #Tarification

Energy Ministry: Customers will not be reimbursed for illicit electricity
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The Energy Ministry announced in Parliament on Thursday that electric companies will not be able to issue TL 33 billion in refunds to customers who have shouldered the burden of eight years’ worth of losses in stolen electricity.

However, the Energy Ministry announced that this money will not be paid, as the amount is too large and paying it back would result in the bankruptcy of various electricity distribution companies. “Those who steal electricity must be caught and punished and the honest customers who pay for it should be reimbursed,” said Consumers Association (TÜDER) President Aydın Ağaoğlu, speaking to Today’s Zaman over the phone, adding that the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals must be upheld.

#Electricité #Subvention #Turquie

Pro-Erdoğan businessman asks to exit major energy project
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One of the partners of an electricity distribution company which serves 1.5 million subscribers in the Southeast on Tuesday asked the government to allow his firm to leave the partnership, lamenting large-scale illegal use of electricity in the region.

Abdullah Tivnikli, a businessman known for his close ties to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said on Tuesday that he wants to exit his partnership with Dicle Electricity Distribution (DEDAŞ) in order to avoid further losses due to widespread illegal use of electricity in the area the company operates in. “I have to leave this partnership or we will be forced to have blackouts in the region to compensate for our losses,” Tivnikli was quoted as saying by Fox TV Turkey.

The İşkaya-Doğu Consortium, in which Tivnikli is a partner, won a tender for electricity distribution in the southeastern region with an offer of $387 million in 2013. DEDAŞ supplies electricity to the southeastern provinces of Batman, Diyarbakır, Mardin, Siirt, Şanlıurfa and Şırnak, where 75 percent of the population uses electricity illegally according to local sources. Tivnikli said his financial losses due to illegal usage amounted to TL 400 million a year. Around 350,000 subscribers in the region DEDAŞ covers fail to pay their electricity bills while 91,000 others pay less than TL 5 a month, Tivnikli told Fox TV.

The methods used by Tivnikli to compensate for losses sustained by the partnership have been a matter of discussion recently.

A suspect in a corruption probe that was made public in December 2013, Tivnikli was allegedly heard asking then-deputy undersecretary in the Prime Ministry İbrahim Kalın for reimbursement from the government for subscribers’ unpaid electricity bills, in a voice recording leaked on YouTube in April 2014. According to another voice recording leaked on Twitter, also in April of last year, Kalın told Tivnikli that the prime minister was in favor of the idea of the state paying the company for illegally consumed electricity, given that the rate of unpaid electricity bills in the Southeast was as high as 60-70 percent.

Tivnikli earlier last year admitted to having spoken to Kalın to get his help regarding the unpaid electricity bills. He also admitted to having paid school fees for Kalın’s daughter. Kalın is currently employed as Erdoğan’s spokesman.

#Electricité #Privatisation #Corruption #Kurdes

Electricity distribution firms in danger of seizure
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Three electricity distribution companies that owe large debts to the state-run Turkish Electricity Trading and Contracting Company (TETAŞ) are on the verge of being confiscated by the Energy Market Regulatory Agency (EPDK).

Electricity distribution firms have faced troubles following their privatization, as the illegal use of electricity has emerged as a major problem in Turkey, particularly in the lower-income regions of eastern and southeastern Anatolia. While it was unspecified which three companies are in danger of seizure, they seem to be facing the same fate as the Osmangazi Electricity Distribution Company, which was privatized in 2010, and then seized by the EPDK last year after accruing large debts it was unable to pay.

After the EPDK wrote to the companies inquiring as to why they were not making payments on their loans, the companies responded to the electricity oversight institution by saying that the stolen electricity had resulted in a major cash flow problem, rendering the companies unable to pay their bills.

#privatisation
#électricité
#Turquie

Gov’t refund for electricity firms may hamper competition
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L’Etat turc envisage d’aider financièrement certaines entreprises privées de distribution d’électricité ayant récemment remporté des appels d’offre car elles auraient sur-investi par rapport à ce qui était prévu dans le contrat... Quelqu’un peut-il m’expliquer l’entourloupe ?

A government plan to reimburse certain private electricity distribution companies as much as TL 1 billion ($480 million) for their alleged extra investments will lead to unfair competition in the energy market, observers have argued.

Today’s Zaman has learned from sources within the Ministry of Energy that the government is contemplating reimbursing private distributors in some large electricity distribution zones. Among these distributors are pro-government firms and businessmen including Abdullah Tivnikli, one of the partners of Dicle Electricity Distribution (DEDAŞ), Türkerler Construction, which owns Vangölü Electricity Distribution A.Ş., and the Çalık-Kiler Group, which provides electricity to customers in the Aras electricity distribution zone. The three zones serve millions of subscribers.

The government claims that after winning tenders for the right to distribute electricity, these distributors invested in each zone a larger amount than stipulated in the tender contracts. The investments, estimated to be as high as TL 1 billion, however, were made by the state between 2006 and 2010 and not by the companies.

The government is planning to reimburse the distributors no later than 2016

#électricité
#Turquie
#privatisation

Jordanie : l’intérêt d’avoir des entreprises privées, c’est qu’on peut les accabler pour incompétence et faute lorsque les choses vont mal... et ainsi détourner la colère populaire contre le gouvernement. Le gouvernement libanais pourrait s’en inspirer (sachant que par ailleurs, cela permet toujours aux mêmes de se remplir les poches...)

Gov’t to sue electricity providers | The Jordan Times
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The Cabinet on Sunday decided to sue the two electricity distribution companies for failure to “perform their duties during the snowstorm”, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, said.

The Cabinet took the decision after listening to a briefing by Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Mohammad Hamed and President of the Electricity Regulatory Commission Thabet Taher, who stressed that the ministry and the commission’s role is purely regulatory and it is the responsibility of the Jordan Electricity Company and the Jordan Electricity Distribution Company to provide consumers with electricity.

The two officials were quoted by Petra as saying that the two companies should have “invested in modern equipment, technologies and control rooms”.

“The Council of Ministers express its disappointment at the obvious failure of the electricity distribution companies in the central and southern regions, leading to frequent blackouts, adding to the difficulties people suffered under the weather conditions that prevailed in the past few days,” Petra said.

#privatisation
#électricité
#tempête
#climat
#énergie

Electricity distribution in Istanbul privatized

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