Amendment to the Regulation on Eligible Consumers
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Att. Özgür Kocabaşoğlu
Article 6 of the Regulation on Eligible Consumers in the Electricity
Market (“the Regulation”), published in the Official Gazette numbered
24866 of 04.09.2002, was amended by the Regulation on the Amendment
of the Regulation on Eligible Consumers in the Electricity Market which
was published in the Official Gazette numbered 27840 of 08.02.2011.
New issues were added to Article 6 titled, “Informing the eligible
consumers and keeping the records”.
Pursuant to Article 5 of the Regulation, the consumers providing the
following requirements will be accepted as “Eligible Consumers”.
a) the consumers connected directly to the transmission line,
b) the consumers whose total consumption of electricity in the
previous calendar year exceeds the eligible consumer limit
(the eligible consumer limit stated by the Energy Market
Regulation Authority (“EMRA”) for 2011 is 30.000 kWh per
year. This amount, in terms of cash, is approximately TRY
796 per month and TRY 9550 per year),
c) the consumers whose total consumption of electricity in the
current year exceeds the eligible consumer limit,
d) the legal persons possessing auto producer licenses whose
total consumption of electricity, including the amount that
consumed from its own production, exceeds the eligible
consumer limit,
e) the consumers whose total consumption of electricity in the
previous calendar year does not exceed the eligible consumer
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Article of February 2011