Collection of payments for electricity in SNT and GSK is, as a rule, one of the sore topics for the chairman and accountant. The share of payments for electricity in the total cost estimate is steadily growing year after year and losses are increasing. There are many reasons: increased tariffs, increased consumption, under-metering, theft of electricity, etc. Let’s take a closer look at the structure of losses and options for solving the problem.

For a typical SNT (700 plots of 6 acres, two package transformer stations, two wells, a board, a caretaker’s house), the structure of payments and electricity consumption is as follows: (average values ​​are given)

— payment to the energy sales organization for common meters installed at the package transformer substation – 800 thousand rubles. in year

— technical losses in lines and transformers, determined by their design, are approximately 6%

— expenses for pump operation, guards’ accommodation and entrance lighting, approximately 100 thousand rubles. per year (12.5%)

— PAYMENT RECEIVED from members of the array and other consumers – 400 thousand rubles. per year (at best!)

TOTAL LOSSES from non-collection of payments, under-accounting and theft of electricity exceed 30% and in monetary terms amount to OVER 250 thousand rubles ANNUALLY!!! The calculation is approximate, but in general the picture is exactly the same, and sometimes even much worse!

This shortfall is distributed evenly among ALL members of the array and is paid from general contributions! Those who suffer the most in this situation are pensioners and citizens who have small consumption (a shed on the site, or do not live) - they are forced to pay for theft in large houses and the unsatisfactory organization of work by the management.

There are cases when, at a general meeting, gardeners with low consumption, after reading the report of the audit commission, directly pose questions to the chairman:

- WHY should I pay 500 rubles - in general contributions, for those who steal?

- What have you done - Dear Chairman, to reduce losses, what specific measures have been taken?

— How much was collected for connections without a meter, how many acts were drawn up over the last TWO years?

Unfortunately, when the chairman and accountant are not interested in organizing transparent accounting, then there are no answers to these questions. As a result, issues are not resolved for years and losses amount to hundreds of thousands of rubles.

To solve this problem, we will consider the steps to organize high-quality accounting - we will draw a version of the “ideal” picture. And the chairman and the board will decide locally which of the above to implement in practice :)
To reduce energy losses you need to:

1. Conduct a walk-through and enter the counters into the computer database! (not in the electrician’s notebook or card). You should also enter technical parameters: meter number, type, value, current transformer parameters, verification dates, seal numbers, inspection dates, photos of objects, meters, etc. (program for SNT “Accounting-SNT-GSK”, website: http://snt-gsk.rf/ see below).

2. Record the state of accounting, unmetered consumption and facts of theft of electricity with acts and photographs - the latter is especially important!

4. Collect reports: who stole and did not pay the acts, who does not install meters and does not eliminate accounting violations, who has low consumption and a large house, who has not had an audit for more than 1-2-3 years, who has expired accounting verification deadlines etc. and so on. IMPORTANT POINT: Reports must be collected regularly, and NOT ONCE once a year - by manually sorting through cards.

5. Control the consumption of large loads (shops, construction, purchase accounting, etc.) calculate - record consumption volumes and issue invoices (and, for example, issue an advance - for those who live in winter).

6. Carry out disconnections for debtors, non-payers, and persons convicted of stealing electricity, in compliance with the norms of current legislation.

7. To carry out claims work on debts, accruals (distribution of claims, pre-trial notices, filed claims, reflecting the history in the program) to work with debtors, you can use your ready-made printed forms of documents and easily organize all the collection work yourself, use the services of a lawyer only for consultations and if necessary.

It is practically impossible to do all this work manually for more than 100 object counters! And with the help of a special program, it is EASY to do! For example, a program for SNT, GSK Internet service: “Accounting for SNT-GSK”, website: http://snt-gsk.rf/ created for accounting of objects, counters, owners, charges and payments. Here you will make accruals by area and counters, create an income estimate and a cash book, collect reports for the audit commission, you will also have access to: events on objects with photographs, accounting for work with debtors and many other additional functions:

The next important point: how to carry out work and organize a tour of objects with drawing up inspection and theft reports? To ensure quality and impartiality, this must be done not by your own low-skilled electrician, and by NOT local personnel to eliminate cases of “forgiveness to your own.” ALSO, the inspector should be INTERESTED in finding theft, for example, receive 200 rubles for an inspection report, and 500 rubles for an act with detected theft. or 5-15% of the amount received. Ideally, it is assumed that an agreement will be concluded with THIRD PARTY qualified, responsible electrician inspectors. The total costs of this work for 600 objects can reach up to 120-360 thousand rubles.

Modern seal on the electric meter

Due to the high costs of this work, inspections can begin to be carried out in stages and bypass large consumers first. At the same time, the MAIN THING is to organize the work of recording acts, charging them and monitoring payments, for example, in the “Accounting for SNT-GSK” program, it is easy to collect reports on large consumers and control the payment process; also, scanned images of acts and photographs of identified violations are entered into the program, which allows immediately prove to the gardener the fact of theft and in case of non-payment it is easy to prepare claim documents. Carrying out inspections without recording them in the program often leads to cases where the written acts “stay” in the folder and work on them drags on indefinitely.

To justify the accruals, carry out work to inspect and disconnect non-payers, it is necessary to provide and approve in the minutes of the general meeting the following points: on the mandatory installation of metering devices, on charging for connection without an electric meter, an advance payment - for example for those living in the winter, etc. . We provide ready-made samples of protocols and acts with clauses granting the right to the chairman to carry out inspections and shutdowns that help reduce losses in the premium version of the program.

If work on the array to check records is carried out clearly and systematically, then immediately “word of mouth” begins to work between gardeners and losses begin to decrease significantly.

Sometimes, seeing such a volume of work, an accountant assumes that most of the work will fall on him, and he will have to deal with ALL these issues. This opinion is erroneous - it is the program that can significantly facilitate the work of an accountant and reduce the time for accrual, calculation, acceptance of payments, and compilation of reports. The program provides flexible settings for access rights, for example, entering technical information can be entrusted to an electrician, claims to a lawyer, without the ability to change the accrual and payment. As a result, the accountant’s work will be made easier - you can read more about this in the article: How to organize accounting in SNT, GSK, Online: http://snt-gsk.rf/

The use of the Internet service program “Accounting-SNT-GSK” DOES NOT AFFECT the capabilities of the chairman, accountant to control expenses, payments for services provided and tax optimization, i.e. does not require a revision of existing activities for work carried out in the partnership, but only help to significantly save time and increase revenue.

The main point of using these services is connecting to the Internet! Currently, this is not a problem - the Internet is connected via a modem (or phone) of a cellular operator (MTS, Megafon, Beeline, TELE2, Rostelecom, etc.). To connect, you need to find out which of the cellular operators works well on your array, and then buy a modem at any operator’s store - a device slightly larger than a flash drive, and you will always have Internet. Alternatively, the Internet can be connected to a computer and via a cell phone. Connecting to the Internet allows the chairman and accountant to receive additional useful information :).

Simplicity and ease of learning is the main feature of our program - this is clearly visible in the demonstration and training videos. As a result, the chairman and accountant automate routine activities, are able to quickly collect reports and can manage the array much more efficiently. (By the way, in the premium version of the program for SNT, we have provided ready-to-use samples of technical acts, minutes of the general meeting, orders, notifications, claims for collection, etc. website: http://snt-gsk.rf/)

We have also encountered cases where the chairman is offered the services of local programmers who will now do EVERYTHING QUICKLY :), unfortunately, practice shows that it takes more than one year to formulate such a large task, and it is not possible to quickly create a fully functional program, and the result is As a rule, money is wasted.

By creating the program - the Internet service “Accounting for SNT-GSK”, we actually concentrated the useful practical experience of many arrays in one place and provided it to all our clients. In our development, we relied on the experience of energy sales companies and thoroughly studied the legal and accounting aspects of the current legislation.

Practice shows that when carrying out work to organize electricity metering, losses are significantly reduced and the partnership’s budget increases by tens and hundreds of thousands of rubles!

1. Minutes of the decision of the general meeting with points: on the installation of meters, payment for unmetered consumption, disconnections, switch-on fees, etc.

2. Inspection report - acceptance of the metering unit (electricity meter).

3. Inspection report with an order to replace and move the meter in accordance with the requirements for ensuring correct accounting

4. Acts of unaccounted consumption (theft) of electricity, options No. 1,2,3.

5. Instructions-consultation with a lawyer about disconnections and debt collection.

6. Claims for debt No. 1, No. 2.

7. Pre-trial notice.

8. Claim for debt collection

These documents will help you easily and quickly organize work on metering charges and debt collection, and as a result, the partnership’s budget will significantly increase.

Sincerely,

Head of the Internet service “Accounting SNT-GSK”,

programs for SNT, GSK

Ignatiev Alexey Gennadievich.

Question: The gardening partnership pays for electricity according to the meter. But after the meter, here’s what: consumers + transformer idling + losses in wires + theft. For this reason, the partnership is forced to approve an inflated “internal” tariff, otherwise it simply won’t make ends meet.

Answer: SNT (SPK, DSK, etc.) does not have the right to accept payments from its gardeners for consumed electricity at a tariff other than that established in the constituent entity of the Russian Federation. If the SNT, represented by the chairman or board of the general meeting, itself decides to establish a tariff at which it will collect money for the electrical energy consumed by gardeners, then this SNT commits at least two offenses for which criminal and administrative liability is provided. The FTS of Russia and the FAS of Russia have already given official clarifications on this issue several times; the media regularly publishes information about the courts and bringing SNT to justice on this issue.

It should be noted that the FTS of Russia also clarified at what tariff gardeners must pay for the electrical energy they consume - at the tariff for urban residents without electric stoves.

Losses that occur in SNT networks and transformer substations must be included in membership fees and distributed evenly among all SNT members.

Question: The sound of a word is not higher than its meaning. It doesn’t matter what we call it: “internal tariff” or tariff + a piece of the membership fee. The meaning remains the same, that is, gardeners pay for the electricity spent on heating the wires, etc. They do not prosecute people for terminology, the only exception being, perhaps, cases of insult.

Answer: The only difference is that accounting for losses in membership fees is within the framework of the law, but the approval by the assembly of the “internal tariff” is outside the framework. The Law “On Electric Power Industry” 35-FZ clearly assigns the powers to set electricity tariffs to the jurisdiction of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Terminology is very important. Write in the minutes of the meeting that you have set a “tariff” - you will break the law, exceed your authority.

Question: In my deep conviction, it is completely wrong to include wire losses in membership fees. Then these losses are paid in equal shares by all members of the SNT. And those who are heated by three heating elements at once, and those who simply do not have electricity. This is injustice.

Answer: The power consumed by the consumer and the amount of losses are not directly related things. A house with a power consumption of 30 kW may be located 30 meters from the transformer, and the losses in the network section from the transformer to this house may be 0.1% of its consumption. And another house, which consumes 5 kW of power, may be located a kilometer from the transformer, and the losses from the transmission of electricity to this house will be 5%. According to the “internal tariff”, the one who is not to blame for the formation of losses, but is only to blame for the fact that he consumes electricity more than others, will have to pay for the losses that occurred from feeding other consumers. Both options have pros and cons, so fairness in this matter is very conditional.

Question: Both methods of accounting for losses in the partnership’s electrical networks (inclusion of losses in membership fees or “internal” tariff) have their drawbacks. So, there is no ideal option for accounting losses for gardening partnerships?

Answer: There is an opportunity to completely avoid problems with losses that arise in networks of gardening partnerships.

Option 1. The gardening partnership transfers its electrical networks to the network company (sells it, transfers it under a lease agreement, etc.). Each member of the gardening partnership (as a consumer) enters into an energy supply agreement with a supplier of last resort (the energy retailer that services the given territory), and independently pays for its consumption according to the readings of its meter. In this case, the gardening partnership does not pay for anything at all; the network company itself maintains the electrical network transferred to it. Electricity losses in the network in this case are taken into account in the tariff for electricity transmission services for the network company.

Option 2. The horticultural partnership submits an application to the executive authority of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation in the field of state regulation of tariffs to establish a tariff for electricity transmission services, and receives such a tariff for its networks. In the future, the network company superior to the gardening partnership will pay the gardening partnership at this tariff for the service of transmitting electrical energy via SNT networks to the gardeners' homes. Electricity losses will be taken into account as part of the costs when calculating the tariff for electricity transmission services. Each member of the SNT in this option also enters into a direct agreement with the guaranteeing supplier serving the given territory, and pays for its electricity consumption to the guaranteeing supplier directly, according to the readings of its meter.

Question: Do I understand the second option correctly, that gardeners pay energy sales according to the tariff, and energy sales also returns part of the money to gardening for transmitting electricity through the partnership network to the home of each gardener? But energy sales won’t like this.

Answer: You understand correctly, and it makes absolutely no difference to the sales company. Because the sales company already pays for the transmission services provided by the network companies. Now in each region there is a “boiler” payment scheme for electric energy transmission services. Sales companies collect money from consumers (for example, 4 rubles per kWh), pay the cost of electricity generation to the electricity market (say, 2 rubles out of 4) and the “boiler holder” in the region (the largest grid company) for transmission services ( 1.5 rubles out of 4). Of the cost of 1 kWh (4 rubles), the remaining 0.5 rubles. - this is the money of the sales company (sales allowance of the guaranteeing supplier). The “boiler holder”, who receives payment from all sales companies for all services of all network companies in the region (at a single “boiler” tariff), of the money received from sales keeps part of it for himself (for the maintenance of his electrical networks), and transfers part to other network companies which Below him on the lines are. In its simplest form, the diagram looks like this. I must say that our country is huge, and in different regions the above scheme may become more complicated and look different, but the essence will remain the same.

Question: If the partnership receives a transmission tariff, it means that gardening is an electrical network organization. Is it acceptable to consider a gardening partnership in this status?

Answer: On the question of whether gardening can be called an electrical grid, I answer that it can. The legislation calls a network company that provides electricity transmission services any person (including an individual or an entrepreneur without forming a legal entity) who owns or disposes of electric grid facilities under the law established by law (and these are networks, transformer substations and distribution substations), through which electrical energy is supplied (flows) to other persons (anyone, i.e. both individuals and legal entities). That is why, from the point of view of antimonopoly legislation and legislation on state regulation of tariffs, if gardening owns networks and a transformer substation, gardening is a network company with all the ensuing rights and obligations.

Question: The power grid organization must also issue technical conditions for technological connection. Law 66 does not provide for any electrical specialists in horticulture. How will the chairman of the board draw up these technical conditions? Every second chairman, puzzled by such a topic, will get a nervous breakdown.

Answer: Yes, when contacted by a consumer who wants to connect to SNT networks, SNT will be obliged to issue technical specifications to such a consumer. Moreover, an individual with a connected power of up to 15 kW will need to connect for 550 rubles, by virtue of the law. If SNT avoids issuing technical specifications, I would recommend immediately contacting the territorial body of the FAS Russia so that this issue can be resolved within the framework of the law.

If there is not enough power of the transformer substations, the legislation establishes the procedure for increasing the power of substations. From January 1, 2011, all costs for increasing the capacity of substations are compensated by tariffs for services for the transmission of electrical energy, through the approval of investment programs by network organizations in the manner established by the Government of the Russian Federation and their implementation. In addition, the lost income of network companies from providing preferential conditions for connecting consumers with a connected capacity of less than 15 kW should also be taken into account as part of the tariff for electric energy transmission services.

Regarding the fact that the chairmen do not want to deal with this, this is a separate topic for discussion. In our country, to my regret, very often the chairmen of gardening associations are professionally unfit to perform their duties. However, the law is the same for everyone, and it must be observed. Otherwise, we are doomed to vegetate in the state in which most SNTs are now: no documents for land, no normal roads or electricity, a complete mess with finances and various frauds.

In my understanding, SNT, just like any other organization, requires competent management, and the experience of my gardening confirms that SNT can exist without problems with collecting payments for electricity, theft of electricity, normal roads, and for all this members do not pay crazy amounts of money .

Question: Let’s say a member of the partnership comes to the board who did not pay the target contribution for the poles. The board is obliged to connect it for 550 rubles? And I’m not talking about an individual who is not a member of the partnership, I’m talking about a defaulting member.

Answer: Yes, I must. And even if a person comes from outside, he must connect. From my point of view, the board should rejoice, since there is a real opportunity to increase the capacity of the partnership’s transformer substation. After all, if a partnership has a transmission tariff and receives funds from this tariff for the maintenance of its networks, the emergence of a new consumer is an ideal basis for launching the procedure for approving an investment program. After the investment program is agreed upon and taken into account in the transmission tariff, SNT will have funds to increase the capacity of the substation. Moreover, not at the expense of the gardeners’ wallet, but at the expense of the electricity transmission tariff.

Question: Can a gardening partnership be both an electrical network and a consumer at the same time? It turns out that when gardeners come together, they are the power grid, and when they disperse, they are consumers. This is just some kind of hoax.

Answer: It is possible to be a consumer and a network company at the same time. Many large and medium-sized enterprises simultaneously combine both of these statuses, since electrical energy flows through their electrical networks and substations to other consumers, while at the same time they themselves consume electrical energy for their production needs.

Question: Do gardeners have the right to enter into contracts with energy sales companies for the consumption of electricity on their own behalf? Or can only a gardening partnership, as a legal entity, enter into such an agreement with an energy retailer?

Answer: According to the FAS Russia, if the decision to conclude an energy supply agreement was made at a general meeting or a board meeting, and this decision is recorded in the minutes of this meeting, then gardeners do not have the right to enter into a direct agreement with sales. If such a decision is not reflected in the minutes of meetings or boards, it has the right. A gardener who has left the gardening community has the right to enter into a direct agreement with sales or resolve this issue within the framework of an agreement with the gardening community. But there is a hidden pitfall here.

To conclude a direct contract, the gardener must submit for sale:
- two energy supply contracts filled out by the gardener (consumer) and signed by him (the form is written, sample forms are available on sales websites, you can pick up the form at the sales office for free);
- a project for the energy supply of a house (plot) agreed upon by the network company to which the consumer is connected (in our case, agreed with SNT), indicating the connected power, to which must be attached an act of technological connection to the networks, signed between the gardener and SNT, as well as an act of delimitation of operational responsibility and balance sheet, signed by the gardener and SNT, the acts indicate the type, model, serial number and readings of the meter that the gardener has;
- conclusion of the State Energy Supervision Authority (Rostekhnadzor) that the energy receiving devices comply with safety requirements (given by the inspector who comes upon the application).

The sales company (supplier of last resort) does not have the right to refuse to conclude an agreement with a consumer - an individual. After receiving the above documents, the sales company is obliged to send the consumer 1 copy of the energy supply agreement signed on its part within 15 days. If you don’t send it, you can contact the territorial division of the FAS of Russia; the law establishes significant fines for evading a guaranteeing supplier from concluding a contract.

Question: Somewhere on the Internet I read about a gardener (or even a group of gardeners) who wanted to enter into a direct agreement. Energosbyt did not even object, but made it a condition that a telemetric meter be installed. Since the telemetry meter turned out to be expensive, the matter stopped.

Answer: The demands of sales companies to install any meters, with or without a GPRS channel, or allowing readings to be taken remotely, is an unauthorized initiative of sales companies, not based on legal norms. Electricity meters are certified for use on the territory of the Russian Federation by an authorized government agency, and not by sales companies. The consumer has the right to decide which meter to install, depending on his financial situation. The main thing is that the electric meter must be certified by an authorized body, which will be indicated in the meter’s passport.

Question: Inspectors will go crazy looking for metering devices installed, in fact, without an address. It seems that the demand of the energy sales company to install telemetric meters by gardeners who want to enter into contracts with the energy sales company directly.

Answer: Each property has an address. And for your garden plot it is also there, and it is registered in your land documents. Moreover, local governments have long been assigning a postal address upon the application of any property owner. How the sales company's controllers will take readings is the problem of the sales company. She receives a tariff (sales allowance) for her activities, the calculation of which also takes into account the costs of paying inspectors, traveling by car, and purchasing these cars. The vast majority of sales companies complain about their financial situation, but if you look at their financial statements on official websites, you will find that they are very profitable. I would even say that they are very, very profitable.

In most regions of the country, since January 1, 2011, tariffs are regulated only for the population, and for other consumers market prices are used, and this further helps to improve the financial situation of energy companies, including sales companies.

Question: Even if a gardener has left the partnership, he is still attached to gardening, because a special law is applied in gardening matters - Federal Law-66. And it says that an individual gardener uses common property for a fee. The individual pays to the gardener for the use of the electricity grid, and to the retailer for the electricity. It turns out that the individual pays twice, and he cannot achieve happiness.

Answer: Federal Law 66-FZ regulates only the activities of gardening associations of citizens; it does not regulate legal relations in the areas of the electric power industry, state regulation of tariffs and control of natural monopolies. It should be noted that the provisions of 66-FZ in no way contradict the legislation in these areas.

In the case of concluding a direct agreement with the distributor for the use of the partnership’s electrical network, the individual does not have to pay the partnership absolutely anything! The individual pays the sales company for the consumed electricity at the final tariff, which includes everything: the cost of generation, the cost of transmission services and the sales markup of the guaranteeing supplier (sales company). And the sales company itself is obliged to regulate all relations with network companies.

SNT, which owns the networks, and in the case of an individual, has the right to decide whether it wants to receive a tariff for the transmission of electricity and, at the expense of this tariff, maintain its electrical networks, or not receive a tariff for transmission services, and, accordingly, not receive and money for their services, i.e. independently, at their own expense, maintain their networks, and provide services for the transmission of electrical energy for free.

Andrei Gromov answered the questions,
Member of the Board of the SPK "Rodnichok", Moscow region.

Questions were asked by D. Okhapkin

February 2011

Fair electricity metering has always been and will be a sore subject for any electricity consumer. This problem becomes especially relevant in Gardening Non-Profit Partnerships (SNT), where serious “battles” for fair payment often take place. It is no secret that in SNT, where the owner becomes the full owner of not only the plot and house, but also his internal networks, it is possible to connect to the wires to the meter, which is what “savvy” gardeners use. Nonsense, you say? How much can you steal? And you would be wrong, because it really is a lot, for example, when using an electric heater in winter? And not in one, but in several houses.

But payment for all unmetered electricity falls in equal shares on all members of the partnership. Those. someone uses many times more, but everyone pays for them!!!

Our company offers a system for metering consumed electricity, which not only eliminates theft, but also greatly simplifies the process of collecting meter readings using PLC technology. PLC technology is the transmission of meter readings via 0.4 kV power wires without the use of additional information cables. Readings from all metering devices are collected in the concentrator and stored there until the accumulated information is collected. All consumers will be presented in the form of a table on a computer monitor with data about each gardener and the electricity he consumed.

And that’s all, there is no need for any inspection raids or calls to conscience from “unclean” gardeners. And if a persistent defaulter appears, then you can teach him a lesson - disconnect him from the power grid for a while until payment is received.

In this case, we propose to use metering devices that allow you to remotely disconnect the consumer and reconnect them after paying for the consumed energy.

The result of installing the system will be the absence of a difference in the readings of the settlement meter and the sum of the gardeners' meter readings. Those. there will be no need to find money to cover this difference, i.e. increases in tariffs, membership fees, which could go towards useful things - road repairs, garbage removal, ecology, etc., so necessary for gardeners. The headache of chairmen for constantly explaining the need for additional collections of money is completely eliminated.

It should be borne in mind that constant annual increases in electricity tariffs make this difference larger and larger, and rising energy prices make some category of gardeners want to avoid paying for it.

We also consider the ability to balance electricity consumption to be an important result of the installation, which allows us to localize, or simply find, places of current leaks, bad connections, undersized wires, and as a result, increase the reliability of power supply and reduce costs.

Installed metering devices allow you to tariff and pay for electricity, taking into account the time of consumption, which also allows you to reduce costs.

Summarize:

1. Eliminates theft of electricity
2. Automation of meter readings
3. Localization of "weak" points of electrical networks
4. Possibility of payment according to a multi-tariff plan

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ELECTRICITY ACCOUNTING IN SNT
(gardening non-profit partnership)

1. ASKUE is needed so that the payment for stolen energy is not spread across all honest users.

How to stop electricity theft? How can everyone not pay for the “most cunning”? All chairmen of gardening partnerships are familiar with the situation when the meter in the substation, for which the partnership reports to the sales organization, shows 30-40% more than what is obtained from the total readings from subscribers' meters. It is often impossible to find the culprit of illegal selection, but you have to pay, otherwise they will turn you off.

What do you do in this case?

Usually the missing amount is allocated to those who pay honestly. New meters with sensors installed on top of overhead line supports completely solve this problem. With such sensors, you collect money exactly as much electricity as each consumer used.

Fair? - Fair!

If a sawmill operated for three days after being “thrown” onto the overhead line wires, then the logs were most likely cut by the owner of the site, and not by homeless people who climbed into someone else’s dacha. With the new sensors, whoever owns the branch from the overhead line to the household pays. Honest users do not pay for someone else’s “cunning”, saving up to 40% of previous payments.

Fig.1 Automated electricity metering

2. ASKUE is needed to fully control consumption in each home and turn off defaulters without going to their site.

Now, with new computerized electricity metering sensors, chairmen of gardening partnerships or people authorized by the partnership can exercise daily control over the energy consumption of each home, each subscriber who has a new meter installed.

Fig.2 Organization of electricity metering

If you are tired of persuading defaulters, following irresponsible members of the partnership and asking them to pay for the energy they consumed, then now you have the opportunity to disconnect defaulters from your work computer without waiting for their next visit to the village, without gathering a support group and without going into their house at all .

3. ASKUE is needed to limit consumption according to quotas determined by the board and power grids, and to fine for excess power consumption.

You know that electricity consumption is growing every year, new electrical appliances appear, and with every repair and restructuring, energy consumption increases. It is not uncommon for a village’s consumption to begin to exceed the limits of sales organizations, and the village is subject to shutdown or additional payment for consumed electricity is required at an extremely high tariff.

Each subscriber has a certain permitted power, which was allocated to him by the Electric Networks, or its value was determined by the project and approved at the general meeting of members of the partnership.

With new meters, the board can not only record the excess of the permitted power for each subscriber, but also take immediate action in the event of an excess.

Chairmen of gardening partnerships or people authorized by the partnership can:

1) turn off the consumer for exceeding power using the meter itself, manually through a computer, or by programming (the meter itself will turn off and turn on the consumer)

2) charge a fine for energy consumed in excess of the norm.

4. ASKUE is needed to save up to 60% of previous payments when paying at two tariffs.

New meters can be programmed in multi-tariff mode.

Paying at several tariffs provides savings only if you use electricity in a well-thought-out manner.

If you don't want to delve into the daily savings technique,

if you do not have energy-intensive consumers in your house that can be turned on at night and turned off during the day (such as electric “warm floors”, electric boilers, electric boilers for heating the building),

then it will be cheaper for you to pay using single-tariff accounting.

Typically, the main consumption of electricity occurs during the daytime, and after 11 pm everything in the house freezes. This means that the electricity you consume will be paid at a tariff valid from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. The rate in the single-tariff mode is less than the daily tariff rate in the two-tariff mode.

Therefore, paying for electricity in a single-tariff mode is more profitable if the main consumption occurs during the daytime - from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

When is a two-tariff regime beneficial?

TWO-TARIFF ELECTRICITY ACCOUNTING

If your home has a heating system using an electric boiler, then you can automatically turn on the boiler to heat water in the heating system only at night from 11 pm to 7 am. During the day, heated water circulates in the radiators, gradually cooling down until the evening. At the same time, you pay three times less than the daily rate. The consumption of such systems is significant. Saving 60% on electricity bills in just one season pays for the cost of the entire system with an electric boiler.

If you have an electric washing machine, dishwasher, water boiler, heated floors in your house, and you are ready to use them mainly at night (your wife is ready to wash and iron after 21 pm), then you can significantly reduce your electricity bills when paying in two tariff mode.

5. ASKUE is needed to be included in the list of settlements that will receive funding from the budget for retrofitting with new metering devices for the properties of low-income citizens.

Federal decisions on the modernization of the Russian economy led to the development of regional programs for the development and improvement of consumer networks.

If in the near future, literally two or three months, you present an ASKUE project for your gardening partnership with partial coverage of users with new sensors that are part of the ASKUE, then you can then enter the regional development program.

Members of this program are allocated budget money to retrofit low-income owners with new metering devices and form a complete network of ASKUE.

One of our priority areas of activity is the installation of ASKUE systems - the implementation and programming of electricity meters:

According to paragraph 27 of the Methodological Guidelines for calculating regulated tariffs and prices for electric (heat) energy in the retail (consumer) market, approved by Order of the Federal Tariff Service of Russia dated 06.08.2004 No. 20-e/2 (hereinafter referred to as the Guidelines), horticultural, gardening or dacha non-profit associations of citizens - non-profit organizations established by citizens on a voluntary basis to assist its members in solving general social and economic problems of gardening, truck farming and dacha farming, make calculations according to the tariffs established by the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of state regulation of tariffs for electrical (thermal) energy for the “population” group.

Considering that citizens - members of gardening partnerships are not rural residents, they pay for electrical energy used for household needs at tariffs established by the regulatory body for the urban population.

However, on the basis of subparagraph 9 of paragraph 2 of Article 35 of the Federal Law of April 15, 1998 No. 66-FZ “On gardening, gardening and dacha non-profit associations of citizens”, the executive authorities of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation have the right to establish for gardeners, gardeners, summer residents and their horticultural, gardening and dacha non-profit associations, payment standards for electricity, water, gas, telephone, determined for rural consumers.

Thus, the regulatory authorities of the relevant constituent entity of the Russian Federation independently decide on the establishment of tariffs for them as for the rural population.

At the same time, end consumers, as part of the tariff, pay the costs of production, transmission services to the network organization to the border with the networks of the gardening partnership and the sale of electrical energy, which are calculated in accordance with the above-mentioned Guidelines. The cost of services for the transmission of electrical energy is one of the components of the tariff established by executive authorities in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of state regulation of tariffs for consumers.

Based on Article 210 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the owner bears the burden of financial expenses to maintain his property in proper condition, unless otherwise provided by law or contract. The above-mentioned horticultural associations of citizens must maintain and maintain their electrical networks and transformers, as well as pay for electricity losses in them, etc., at the expense of the members of the horticultural association.

In addition, it should be noted that if the energy supplying organization supplies electrical energy to the gardening partnership through its networks and the metering device for the electrical energy supplied to the gardening partnership is installed before the transformer, then the gardening partnership pays for the amount of electricity according to the readings of the meter, which also takes into account losses in its property. transformer. If the boundary between the balance sheet and the consumer passes through a meter installed after the transformer, then the gardening partnership must pay for the loss of electricity in the transformer in addition to the meter readings. The procedure and terms of payment are determined by the parties in the agreement between the energy supply organization and the consumer.

In accordance with paragraph 46 of the Methodological Instructions, when setting the tariff for electric energy transmission services, consumer networks that are their property rights are not taken into account, provided that the maintenance, operation and development of these networks is carried out at the expense of these consumers. Therefore, mandatory compensation for the costs of transmitting electricity supplied through a section of the network owned by a gardening partnership is not provided for by the energy supply organization.

The costs of maintenance, current and major repairs, periodic testing of electrical installations and lines, training and certification of personnel, maintenance of personnel servicing electrical installations are paid from funds collected from members of horticultural societies and are not included in the tariff.

See also other popular questions in the “Electrification and Energy Supply” section and their answers

• Is it possible to oblige a utility company to install an electric energy meter at the border of the balance sheet in an apartment building in order to pay the energy supply organization for it, and pay the residents of the building for the electricity used by the utility company itself?
• For an individual, it is possible to use a tariff schedule differentiated by zone of the day (two-tariff accounting). What are the time zones for this tariff and what is the effect of this tariff on weekends and holidays?
• At what tariff do members of the gardening association pay for the electricity consumed?
• Is it legal for energy companies to charge fees for replacing electric meters?
• Who sets the fee for technological connection to electrical networks?
• Is it possible to change the contractual capacity downward if the contract does not provide for such a possibility?
• Is the energy supplying organization entitled to demand 100% prepayment for electricity?
• What responsibility does the energy supply organization bear for non-application of prices (tariffs) established by the executive body of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation in the field of tariff regulation (regional tariff service)?
• At what tariffs, according to the energy supply agreement, does the subscriber supply energy to subsubscribers?
• What is the procedure for contacting the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of state regulation of tariffs (regional tariff services) in order to calculate and establish a tariff for the transmission of electricity to subsubscribers?
• Tell us about paying for consumed electricity using readings from a common house meter
• Why do I receive large bills for general house electricity metering?
• Who should maintain electricity meters in public areas, carry out their periodic inspection, repair, and replacement?
• Not long ago, the power supply to the house was cut off. When we called the energy supply company, we were informed that there had been a network failure, and as a result we were without power for several hours. Recently, such accidents have become more and more frequent. Is compensation due in such cases to the victims and where to apply?

See also popular questions and answers to them in other sections

Heat supply

• Are the balcony and loggia included in the heated area? What about the bathroom and toilet?
• Are apartment heating services paid for in the summer, when there is actually no heating?
• If a residential building has a heat meter, is the heating cost recalculated to the residents of the house? If yes, then how?

Gas supply

• At whose expense should apartment household gas meters in apartment buildings be verified?
• Who should bear the costs of maintaining internal gas pipelines and gas equipment that are part of the common property of the house if there are gas meters?
• Is it legal for a natural gas seller to introduce a temperature coefficient? How is it calculated?

Water supply

• Water supply tariffs are high, but the quality of services does not correspond to them. How to achieve recalculation?
• In our house, by majority vote, a decision was made to carry out a major overhaul of the hot and cold water supply system. One of the owners made expensive repairs to the apartment, closed the cold and hot water risers in the bathroom, and lined the boxes with ceramic tiles. At the same time, he agrees that the work will be carried out, but with the condition that the management company will compensate or restore the damaged boxes and tiles. How valid is his claim?
• The kitchen faucet in the apartment is not working properly. Who should carry out the work to repair or replace it? What in an apartment building should be maintained at the expense of the general tariff, and what directly at the expense of the tenant?