For many consumers, the payment of electricity did not raise questions. After all, it is enough to take the meter readings, subtract from them the data for the previous month and multiply by the cost of the tariff per kilowatt hour. However, with the introduction of the new rules for the provision of public services, Russians had to face the appearance of adjustments or recalculations in a larger direction.
The fact is that for an electricity supplier, a sales or grid company, it is important that they pay for all the energy that it supplied. Usually this is fixed by the meters of the company itself, installed on the border of responsibility of the supplier and the consumer. However, payment for electricity does not take place according to these data, but according to indications taken from individual metering devices installed at home by citizens.
In addition, there are a fairly large number of consumers who do not have such devices. And payment of electricity without a meter takes place according to standards that imply a fixed consumption of kilowatts per month. But often, such consumers have a large number of powerful household appliances: these are not only electric kettles, washing machines and microwave ovens, but also split systems or air conditioners, dishwashers, electric stoves. And in this case, there is an amount of electricity that is not paid by anyone.
The new rules for the provision of utilities include the protection of rights not only of consumers, but also of service providers. Therefore, they can, after a certain period of time, recalculate the supplied resources, in this case, electricity. And then the difference between the readings of the total meter and the sum of all individual metering devices is divided between all consumers and set as payment for electricity. The formula used can not always be called fair, but it is approved by the government of the country, and therefore should be used.
There is still such a section in payments, such as payment for electricity MOS - common areas. As a rule, these include stairwells, corridors near apartments, and lighting of the local area. And for this you have to pay not by the meter and not by the standard per person - but from a square meter of a particular apartment. These payments are also often perceived as unfair, since you have to pay significantly more kilowatts than was actually spent by the tenants.
But the new decree brought good news for consumers. Now all electricity providers must create online payment services. Payment of electricity via the Internet is very convenient for busy people. Alas, not all suppliers and not all banks offer such a service. Many limited themselves to creating a service on their website to generate a receipt in a remote mode, online appointments, etc. Of course, this is better than manually filling out the required forms. By the way, when using such a service, the client forms a receipt only according to the readings of the counter. Thus, he will not have to pay regular adjustments.