In Primorye, a working group on the administration of the social norm of consumption

Primorye included in the number of pilot regions, where in July 2013 to introduce a social norm consumption. This is stated by the Government, "a package of measures aimed at the transition to the establishment of social norms of consumption of public services in the Russian Federation", approved by President Dmitry Medvedev. According to this document, the innovation in 2013 will concern for the power to establish a social norm relatively low prices on overconsumption - additional fee.

The draft document on how to define social norms rather detailed, it takes into account a variety of situations. However, there are drawbacks. So, for example, representatives of municipalities (especially the northern areas) are concerned the amount of social norms: in communities where there is no hot water, people have to spend more energy than the big cities. Dilapidated infrastructure boilers that do not handle the load, is pushing local authorities to transfer the house to the electric heating, which also leads to an increase in electricity consumption.

Proponents of participation in the experiment believe that with the right calculation social norm, in contrast, can perform a mechanism of social protection of the poor. The main thing - to determine its scope to consider the modern day needs and to diversify the social norm for various types of accommodation, take them into account depreciation, the class of energy efficiency and other parameters.

In the administration of the province, after hearing all the opinions, have decided to establish a working group for a thorough study of the issue. It decided to include representatives of the local authorities, energy companies, resursosnabzhayuschih organizations. They prepare a report on the feasibility of participation in a pilot project of Primorye.

Meanwhile, on Saturday, March 23 as part of the All-Russian protest at Vladivostok on the forecourt at the monument to Vladimir Lenin at 15:00 will be rally against the forthcoming introduction of standards for electricity and rising utility bills and fuel . Similar protests have been held in the cities of Primorye Dalnegorsk, Guerrilla, Kavalerovo, Lazo and Olga.