A public hearing was held on the application of "KEGOC" JSC.
The Committee on Regulation of Natural Monopolies of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan re-examined the application of KEGOC JSC for approval of tariffs and tariff estimates for regulated services for the transmission of electric energy, technical dispatching of electricity supply and consumption to the grid and the organization of balancing production and consumption of electric energy for 2021-2026.
The public hearing was held in parallel online via the ZOOM platform and the Facebook social network, where representatives of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan "Atameken", the Ministry of Energy, mass media, other interested persons, as well as consumers of KEGOC JSC took part.
The public hearing was held under the chairmanship of the Chairman of the Committee Asan Darbayev.
Welcoming the participants of the hearing, Asan Darbayev familiarized everyone with the procedure for holding a public hearing, and also noted the need to actively express their suggestions and comments on the draft tariffs, tariff estimates of KEGOC JSC.
The speaker at the public hearing was the Deputy Chairman of the Board of JSC "KEGOC" - Botabekov Aibek Toleubekovich.
The representative of KEGOC JSC in his speech said that in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Natural Monopolies", tariffs for the above-mentioned regulated services are set for 5 years.
The current tariffs of KEGOC JSC for regulated services for the transmission of electric energy, technical dispatching of supply to the grid and consumption of electric energy and the organization of balancing production and consumption of electric energy were approved for
2016-2020. Due to the expiration of their validity period, KEGOC JSC has submitted an application to the DCRNM for approval of new tariffs and tariff estimates for 2021-2026, "Aibek Botabekov said during his speech.
Then the participants of the public hearing and representatives of the media were able to ask questions of interest and concern to them concerning the draft tariffs and tariff estimates of the subject, and get answers to them.
In conclusion, the Head of the State thanked everyone for their participation and active expression of proposals, noted that the final decision will be made based on the results of consideration of the application of KEGOC JSC in the terms and procedure established by the legislation on natural monopolies.
It should be noted that the Committee always takes into account the opinions of participants in a public hearing and tries to maintain a balance of interests between consumers and the subject when making a final decision.