The Communiqué of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources on the Procedures and Principles Regarding the Cancellation of Energy Consumption Costs under the State of Emergency was published in the Official Gazette and entered into force.
According to this, accrued but uncollectible consumption of electricity and natural gas subscribers, whose residences and workplaces were destroyed, which will be destroyed in an emergency, or which became heavily or moderately damaged, in areas accepted as disaster areas within the scope of the state of emergency declared by the Presidential Decree, until February 6, 2023. the consumption amounts for the period from the last reading date until February 6, and the unpaid invoices of these subscribers for the previous periods and their accessories, the consumption amounts remaining from the period before the privatization of Türkiye Elektrik Dağıtım A.
Electricity and natural gas consumption made illegally, subscribers with public legal personality and general lighting subscribers will be excluded from the scope of the communiqué.
Related companies will determine the places of consumption whose consumption expenses will be included in the scope of cancellation, according to the damage status information obtained from the relevant units of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change regarding residences and workplaces, and from the relevant units of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism regarding registered buildings.
In the event that more than one consumption point, the measurement of which is made from a single meter, is located in different buildings and any part of these consumption points is moderately damaged, heavily damaged, urgently demolished or demolished, all consumption related to the meter will be abandoned.
In this context, the last invoice accrued but not collected before February 6, and the unpaid consumption invoices for previous periods, if any, the invoices related to the consumptions realized between the last index reading on the last invoice until February 6 but not turned into accrual, and the invoices related to any period before this date. and additional consumption invoices that are not collected even though they are accrued will be deleted.
In addition, the consumptions realized between the last index reading before February 6, but not turned into accrual, until February 6, based on the meter index values, if the meter values cannot be read, based on the consumption amount for the same period of the previous year, based on the same period of the previous year. If there is no consumption amount, it will be determined and invoiced within the framework of the estimated consumption value determination methodology.
The said consumptions will be determined and calculated based on the meter index values, if any, and in case the meter values cannot be read, within the framework of the methodology within the scope of the Natural Gas Market Distribution and Customer Services Regulation.
According to the determined principles, the invoices which are dated before 6 February but have been paid after 6 February will not be canceled and no claim can be made for these invoices. Such payments made will be considered within the scope of cancellation if they have been returned to the relevant person by the companies before the publication date of the communiqué.
