In the winter of 2002-2003, AO MOSENERGO ensured the uninterrupted heating for all its consumers, having fully met the terms of the power supply agreement. But as a result of unfair behavior of the housing department of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Nuclear Power, PPSK CHP-25, DONstry and others that had failed to pay for consumed heat, AO MOSENERGO now faces a shortfall in funds. This negatively affects the summer maintenance campaign. To cover the lack of funds, AO MOSENERGO has had to attract loans.

AO MOSENERGO has no other way of supplying power to its debtors without receiving payments from them. Therefore, the Company has used its right under the current legislation and stopped supplying power to the above-mentioned debtors.

Understanding that the burden of the debt deadlock will be most felt by Muscovites who live in these buildings and pay for electricity and heat, AO MOSENERGO has repeatedly offered to the housing departments various way of settling the debt problem. However, these proposals did not bring about a positive effect. The debt continues to grow.

In their turn, debtors have found a simple but illegal way to resolve the problem. They turn on heating on their own, violating the current legislation and the power supply agreement. By doing this, they violate the safety rules and the technical process, which may result in equipment damages and breakdowns, residential blocks without heating and even injuries.

The responsibility for the consequences of these actions has to be assumed by the leaders of the organizations that have allowed this.

It is time to realize that electricity and heat are a good that is produced and distributed to tens of thousands of people. It is an essential need like bread, salt or matches. If we want it to be available we have to pay for it. The misuse of this good may cause trouble.