The verdict announced by the Constitutional Court in connection with the charge for the access to the transmission and distribution electricity network, a so-called G-component, should be the reason for recalling the head of the Regulatory Office. The Constitutional Court ruled that this charge is unconstitutional in some moments.
The significant energy project was monitored continuously. Causes for the delayed completion of the project and possible budget exceeding were investigated.
Slovenske Elektrarne, which is completing two nuclear blocks in Mochovce, has reached another milestone in the completion of the third block. The company has completed the control installation of the reactor.
The chairman of the Constitutional Court, Ivetta Macejkova, informed briefly that the court had ruled that the decree has been beyond the valid legislation and had been in conflict with the Slovak Constitution as well as price regulation and energy laws.
According to the regulator, new directives will increase quality of services provided by suppliers of electricity, gas, heat and water to Slovak households.
The declaration which MEPs could have signed between March 7 and June 7 writes that this project will undermine Ukraine’s status as a transit country which will have dramatic geopolitical consequences.
Under the new decree issued by the Regulatory Office for Network Industries, feed-in tariffs of hydroelectricity will decrease dramatically. Electricity generated by hydropower plants with the installed capacity from 1 to 5 MW will be subsidized with a sum of 73 euros instead of almost 100 euros from January 2017.
According to the Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Slovenske Elektrarne is carrying out a comprehensive investment program using the latest technologies in order to stretch the life span of two nuclear blocks in Jaslovske Bohunice.
The next round of the support aimed at households from regions outside Bratislava will take place in the second half of June. The exact date has not yet been set.
The Regulatory Office for Network Industries decided to reduce maximum prices for gas supplies as of July 2016. The price for households will decrease by 4.9% and for small companies by 6.6% on average.
The Russian company TVEL is currently negotiating with Slovenske Elektrarne on the possibility of additional nuclear fuel supplies for the inventories of Slovak nuclear power plants.
Economy Minister Peter Ziga believes that a council of experts must gather to assess whether the possible increase in the budget for the completion of Mochovce NPP is justifiable.
The Nuclear Regulatory Authority refused to comment on the possible postponement of the completion of Mochovce NPP. Slovenske Elektrarne is analysing the current situation.
Some companies which are under regulation failed to submit the evaluation of the quality standards for the last year to the Regulatory Office for Network Industries.
Economy Minister Peter Ziga did not know to say how the state will respond to an increase in the budget for the completion of Mochovce NPP, if the information in the media is true.
The Nuclear Regulatory Authority of the Slovak Republic carried out more than 200 inspections last year which proved that Slovak nuclear power plants are reliable and safe.
Although the state budget for the years 2016-2018 expects consumers to pay 71 million eurso for a so-called back-end fuel cycle this year, which is roughly 4 million euros more than last year, the company JAVYS states that this sum may be different in the end.