The board of directors of Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG) has decided that during the first six months of next year, the discount of 12,5 percent on the total bill for consumed electricity will be continued for households that pay their bills regularly, with the total cost for those purposes being approx. 4,5 million euros were fully taken over by EPCG.
In the announcement, they point out that the Board, taking into account the enormous contribution of Pljevlja in ensuring the energy stability of the system, in the conditions of the energy and covid crisis, and with the aim of reducing the level of air pollution in that city, to the citizens of Pljevlja, i.e. customers from the "household" category, approved additional 10 percent discount on active energy until the end of the heating season, i.e. until the end of the first quarter of 2022.
The new cut-off for membership in the Golden Team will be made on January 31, 2022.
"EPCG tries to take into account the difficulties faced by citizens, but also the need to generate income based on the delivered electricity. Of course, this is not easy to achieve, especially in the context of the effects of the covid-19 pandemic, so we are parallel to traditional activities , with the action "Let's share the burden" and the prize game "Golden Team", in cooperation with CEDIS, applied an additional discount policy for regular payers starting on May 31, 2021. According to this policy, all households that on May 31, 2021 . had EUR 0,00 of debt to EPCG, they automatically received membership in the "Golden Team" and, in addition to the standard 13 percent discount on active energy (the first item on the bill), they also received an additional 13 percent discount on CEDIS services. , for example, a household whose bill for consumed electricity amounted to 60 euros, excluding VAT, instead of the previous 3,80 euros, during the previous months, ending on December 31 of this year, receives a discount of 7,35 euros," explained are from EPCG.
Institutions that bear the greatest burden of fighting the pandemic (hospitals, health centers, kindergartens, primary and secondary schools) during 2021 received a discount of 10 percent, and the economy three percent.
During 2021, EPCG set aside seven million euros for discounts for regular customers from the "household" category, as well as the economy and institutions of special importance.
"These actions, i.e. discounts for customers, certainly put a burden on our company's operations, but starting from our determination to operate socially responsibly, we felt that, at least during this phase of the pandemic, we should provide assistance to citizens, especially before EPCG, as a company located owned by the state, it carries out its business activities precisely within the borders of Montenegro and, in this regard, it should not be indifferent to the problems that citizens face. increase in the number of regular payers", EPCG concluded.
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