The Kyivenerho power generating and distribution company is intending to turn off street lighting on 9 streets and 2 squares in the Kyiv downtown for debts on Tuesday, May 25.
Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the company, the wording of which was made available to the agency.
According to the statement, the company will turn off street lighting on Khreschatyk Street, Luteranska Street, Horodetskoho Street, Prorizna Street, Hrynchenko Street, Triokhsviatytelska Street, Hrushevskoho Street, European Square and Bessarabska Square.
The company also plans to suspend electricity supplies to some facilities of the Kyivpastrans municipal company ay 146 Nauky Avenue, 1 Volho-Donskyi Lane, in the district of the Darnytskyi car repair plant that provides electricity to trolley-bus No.1, trams No. 33, 28, and No.21.
At present, the company specifies a list of facilities owned by the Kyivvodokanal municipal company that can be cut from electricity supplies.
Kyivenerho notes that other debtors can be cut from electricity supplies within a month under a schedule.
As earlier reported, chairman of Kyivenerho board Eduard Sokolovskyi said the company would begin forcibly restricting heating and electricity supplies to debtors from May 25. In his words, the company had to resort to such measures because of the Kyiv city budget for 2010 does not provide compensations for the difference in tariffs between the prime cost of services the company renders and the tariffs set.
In this connection, Anatolii Holubchenko, first deputy chairman of the Kyiv city state administration, said the administration denies a possibility that the company will begin forcibly restricting heating and electricity supplies to debtors from May 25.
He said the Kyiv city state administration could not compensate for the difference, as the city did not have budget for 2010. As the city budget is endorsed now, the Kyiv city state administration will start to redeem the debts to the company, he said.
According to the energy company, the Kyiv municipal administration owed Kyivenerho UAH 1.868 billion as of May 17, the debt of all categories of consumers for the consumed heat energy made Hr 1.868 billion, total debt for heat was Hr 1.326 billion and for electricity – Hr 913.474 million.
