METHODOLOGY FOR SETTING COSTS FOR CONNECTION TO ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS APPROVED ...

BELGRADE, 10 July 2006 – The Council of the Energy Agency of the Republic of Serbia approved the Methodology on criteria for setting costs for connection to electricity transmission and distribution system (full text can be found on the Agency’s web site www.aers.org.yu). The Methodology sets the criteria for determining cost of installations, equipment and materials that are installed, operation costs for connecting facilities to the system, as well as the costs of acquiring and preparing the required documentation for standard and individual connections. The Methodology sets connection costs for the facilities that are connected to the system for the first time, as well as for those special cases where there is an increase of power, decoupling i.e coupling of the installation in a facility that is already connected to the system is anticipated, or for re-connection or connection of temporary facilities such as construction sites or facilities during trial periods. The energy entity sets the connection costs according to its internal acts and in accordance with the criteria stipulated in the Methodology. The Energy Agency was established as an independent regulatory body on 16 June last year by the Energy Law with a mission to improve and direct energy market development in Serbia on non-discriminatory and efficient competition principles.