Rabinovich: The state still does not know how much gas its citizens consume

Ukraine pledged to create a data hub for the retail gas market by signing a memorandum with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) dated June 2, 2020. The document should provide residential consumers with the right to share historical consumption data, and distribution system operators will have to provide access to their historical consumption data to any supplier the consumer chooses. The provision of data should be free of charge.

Maksym Rabinovich, Director of the Retail Business Division of Naftogaz Group, emphasized that personal data of household gas consumers were accumulated in the databases of operators of gas distribution systems, and in the case of a supplier change, there are no requirements for storing this data or, moreover, their automated transfer to a new supplier. He wrote this in a column for Liga.Business.

Therefore, the state still does not know how much gas its citizens consume. And in cases of crisis, the state cannot quickly and accurately determine the need for additional targeted payments.

According to him, this state of affairs violates consumer rights.

Currently, Ukrainian household consumer does not have the right to save data about consumption, or the right to transfer data about his consumption, since this is not guaranteed at the state level.

NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine supports the creation of a data hub for the retail gas market in Ukraine. A data hub is a centralized digital solution potentially integrated across multiple energy markets (e.g. gas and electricity). However, this is not only a database of household consumers. This is, first of all, a tool for solving a lot of problems in the market with the help of information technologies widespread in the world (data hubs exist in the EU countries, Great Britain, Norway).

To recap, the Ministry of Energy wants to create a unified system of energy consumers.

Tags: Naftogaz, legislation, electricity, EU, IMF, Gas market, Ukraine, consumers,

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