OREANDA-NEWS. In three months 2013, receivables from legal entities – electricity consumers in Dnipropetrovsk Region – has grown by UAH 203.2 mln to make UAH 1.3 bln.

 DTEK Dniprooblenergo has seen a growth of receivables from all main categories of its customers compared to the beginning of the year.

Thus, the debt of industrial enterprises has increased by UAH 56.4 mln (total debt: UAH 191.3 mln). The debt of agricultural companies has grown by UAH 1.09 mln year to date (total debt: UAH 13.4 mln).

 Furthermore, non-payments for electricity out of different level public budgets have also increased. In three months 2013, the debt of enterprises financed from the state budget has gone up by UAH 6.6 mln (total debt: UAH 16.9 mln), from local budgets – by UAH 1.01 mln (total debt: UAH 21.3 mln).

 Housing and communal utility enterprises (water and heat supply, housing maintenance organizations) are lead nonpayers. Their year-to-date debt has increased by UAH 132.1 mln and currently amounts to UAH 963.5 mln.

 The main debtors among water-supplying companies are Kryvbaspromvodopostachannia (the total debt: UAH 138.9 mln), Kryvbasvodokanal – UAH 13.8 mln, Dniprovodokanal – UAH 38.3 mln, Aulskyi Vodovod – UAH 244.9 mln, Dnipro-Zakhidnyi Donbas – UAH 61.8 mln, Marganetsvodokanal – UAH 6.0 mln, Nikopolske VKU – UAH 6.1 mln, Miskvodokanal of the town of Dniprodzerzhynsk – UAH 6.4 mln, Zhovtovodskyi Vodokanal – UAH 4.6 mln.

 “A considerable debt of legal entities for electricity is growing at a record pace and its proportions are menacing. The debt of UAH 1.3 bln equals free electricity consumption by the entire Dnipropetrovsk Region for a month”, said the General Director of DTEK Dniproenergo, Serhiy Bublikov. “We cannot credit the debtors any longer. The Company has to take measures of last resort: to disconnect them completely or limit their consumption. The missing funds could have been used to develop and modernize the electrical facilities of the region, and their uninterrupted and efficient operation determines to a large extend both the well-being of population and competitiveness of industrial companies. Non-payments – and those failing to pay must understand it – undermine not only the region’s energy system stability, but jeopardize the whole energy sector of the country. Their debts trigger chain problems in paying to thermal power plants for electricity generation and miners for coal they produced.”