STATE REGULATION TARIFFS AND INVESTMENTS IN THE ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY

Abstract

The article considers the problems of
tariffs and investments regulation in electric power
industry of the Russian Federation. The analysis of
currently operating legislation allows the author to draw
the following conclusion: state policy of attraction and
management of the capital should be formulated in a
separate document which would consider the features
of electric power industry and importance of attraction of
investments into this branch of the national economy for
the purpose of updating and expanding the fi xed capital,
on the one hand, and would allow to conduct adequate
tariff policy as the increase in investments leads, in the
long term, to the growth of tariffs for the end user of
power resources.