The decision on the electricity transmission tariff should be made after consultation with the business,

The decision on the electricity transmission tariff should be made after consultation with the business and an analysis of all the risks that an increase may lead to. This was stated by the chief consultant of the National Institute of Economic Research, Ivan Us, commenting on the initiative of the National Commission for Energy Regulation to significantly increase the tariff for electricity transmission.

“A dialogue with business is necessary so that the government understands which industries have risks. And policy should be based only on such dialogues. Because if you make a decision to increase individual tariffs without consultation, this can become a bad signal,” the expert noted.

He emphasized that problems in certain sectors of the Ukrainian economy that have already arisen are precisely a signal of a lack of dialogue.

“This is another…