/View.info/ The increase in the price of electricity is not a solution to the problems of NEK and the energy sector. If the knot with the RES is not cut and if the contracts with the two American plants are not renegotiated, the situation will not improve.
This was commented by Dragomir Stoynev, Minister of Economy and Energy in Oresharski’s government in Stara Zagora, the party’s press center reported. Stoynev explained the statement of the State Electricity and Energy Commission about a 10% increase in the price of electricity before a meeting with miners and energy workers from the Stara Zagorsk region, where he is the leader of the “BSP Left Bulgaria” list.
“It is incomprehensible to me personally. Apparently, DKEVR serves the interests of electricity distribution companies and renewable energy sources. That is, the main factors that led to the dire state of NEC”, he stated and asked why the bill should be paid by the Bulgarian citizens, who no one asked if they could bear the exorbitant price of over 1000 megawatts of RES, connected in 2012.
According to him, the current government and the composition of the State Energy Commission, under the dictation of GERB, want to shift the burden from private investors and monopolies back to consumers.
“I cannot explain in any other way the statements of the State Environmental Protection Agency that our actions regarding the EPPs are not legal, that the American plants had “iron” contracts, that everything that has been done so far regarding the RESs will they try to avoid it”, said Stoynev. “I found a deficit of BGN 2.7 billion in NEK, accumulated thanks to GERB’s investments since 2012 in the RES-sector and thanks to the long-term contracts for the purchase of energy from the two American plants”, said Stoynev. He recalled that as a minister he worked precisely in these two directions – the negotiations with the American investors actually started and for the first time the restriction of the renewable energy sector was started by imposing a 20% tax on green energy.
“Thus, the deficit in NEK for 2013 was reduced approximately three times” – explained Stoynev.
The former minister of energy warned that speculations about the poor state of NEK are dangerous and saw in them a possible scenario of “selling state assets”, as he stopped several times as a minister. “Bulgaria is not a country where we can put a sign that says: ‘Everything is for sale.’ Bulgarian energy must remain state-owned, it is part of our national security.
“Perhaps I am the only minister who left the Chiren gas storage full.” I see that the caretaker government does nothing, it only tells us what to do – there is no money. Don’t think that when I was a minister I was swimming in money, I was just finding the right solutions,” Stoynev said. According to him, in the event of a gas crisis, the Bulgarian economy and Bulgarian households can survive for approximately two and a half months. According to him, the most reasonable sustainable solution is the continuation of “South Stream”, which will guarantee gas directly from the source.
“NEK paid priority to the people underground, and then to those in the suits who followed by phone whether they made 1,000 or 2,000 BGN per day from electricity sales.” – this was stated by Stoynev regarding the miners’ strike at the Black Sea mine. He stated this in response to the current government’s PR campaign, which announced to whom NEK paid priority during his time. “In my time, there were no miners’ strikes, because I sat at the same table with the miners and the unions and we solved the problems without going to extremes,” said Stoynev.
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