Electric Networks of Armenia changes billing scheme
16.09.2015,
12:57
The Electric Networks of Armenia has changed the billing scheme, the company reports on its official website.
YEREVAN, September 16. /ARKA/. The Electric Networks of Armenia has changed the billing scheme, the company reports on its official website.
It was announced earlier that the government, awaiting the results of the audit in the company, will pay the difference that appear in bills of consumers, including small and medium businesses that spend no more than 500 kWh, because of the electricity price increase that came into force on August 1.
The company says that now consumers can see the cost of the consumed electric power in their monthly bills, where the amounts to be paid by the consumer and to be subsidized by the government are mentioned separately.
Details can be received from the company's official website www.ena.am and from its call-center 080000180 as well as by direct request to the company.
On June 17, Armenia's Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) voted to raise electricity tariffs by 6.93 drams ($0.015 or 16.7%) per kilowatt-hour beginning from August 1. The decision gave rise to street protests in Yerevan and other cities in Armenia.
The “No to Plunder” civil campaign which organized the protests blocked Marshal Baghramyan Avenue in central Yerevan with a two-week sit-in, demanding that the government reverse the price hike. Baghramyan Avenue was unblocked by the police early morning July 6.
On June 27, following his meeting with Russian Minister of Transport Maksim Sokolov (co-head of the Russia-Armenia Intergovernmental Commission), President Serzh Sargsyan announced the upcoming audit of the Electricity Networks of Armenia, which originally sought a 40% rise. Sargsyan also said that the government would pay the price increase for households pending the completion of the audit. ---0----
It was announced earlier that the government, awaiting the results of the audit in the company, will pay the difference that appear in bills of consumers, including small and medium businesses that spend no more than 500 kWh, because of the electricity price increase that came into force on August 1.
The company says that now consumers can see the cost of the consumed electric power in their monthly bills, where the amounts to be paid by the consumer and to be subsidized by the government are mentioned separately.
Details can be received from the company's official website www.ena.am and from its call-center 080000180 as well as by direct request to the company.
On June 17, Armenia's Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) voted to raise electricity tariffs by 6.93 drams ($0.015 or 16.7%) per kilowatt-hour beginning from August 1. The decision gave rise to street protests in Yerevan and other cities in Armenia.
The “No to Plunder” civil campaign which organized the protests blocked Marshal Baghramyan Avenue in central Yerevan with a two-week sit-in, demanding that the government reverse the price hike. Baghramyan Avenue was unblocked by the police early morning July 6.
On June 27, following his meeting with Russian Minister of Transport Maksim Sokolov (co-head of the Russia-Armenia Intergovernmental Commission), President Serzh Sargsyan announced the upcoming audit of the Electricity Networks of Armenia, which originally sought a 40% rise. Sargsyan also said that the government would pay the price increase for households pending the completion of the audit. ---0----
