A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
Grid expansion from general tax: the connecting user should pay, not everyone.
45.3 millió Ft in operating costs for a grid-development programme funded from general tax rather than from the regulated tariff paid by the users who benefit from the new connection.
Roughly 11 Ft per taxpayer per year — 45.3 millió Ft in operating costs, phased out over 3 years as new grid investment moves back onto the network operator's regulated balance sheet.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: the operating administration of a grid expansion programme. The unseen: the general taxpayer funding infrastructure capacity whose benefits accrue to the specific users connected — and the price signal that should tell the operator where new capacity is worth building, silenced when the budget covers the cost instead.
Ellenvetés
"Grid expansion is essential infrastructure — the network operator can't fund it alone."
Válasz
Grid investment is normally recovered through regulated network tariffs: the users who draw on new capacity pay for it through their tariff, and that payment signals to the operator where capacity is actually needed. Shifting it to the general budget severs that signal and spreads the cost to people who use neither the new connection nor the electricity it carries.
Share if you think the cost of new grid capacity should be paid by the people it connects, not by everyone.
Az elemző értékelése
Térségi fejlesztési feladatok — Villamos energia és gázhálózat infrastruktúra-fejlesztés — működési
Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.
Indoklás
This is the second-largest expenditure block in the chapter, and it deserves a precise mechanism reading. The transmission grid itself — the high-voltage backbone and the last-mile distribution network — has a genuine network-economic character: parallel competing wires to every house are not how the service is delivered. But state budget financing of grid expansion is a different question from the natural-monopoly character of the wires. Grid investment is normally funded by the regulated network operator and recovered through regulated network tariffs paid by the users who benefit from the connection — that is how the cost reaches the people who actually draw on the new capacity. Financing grid expansion from the general budget instead shifts the cost from connecting users onto the general taxpayer, and breaks the signal that tells the operator where new capacity is actually worth building. The phase-out moves grid-development financing back onto the regulated-tariff base where it belongs. It is gradual rather than immediate because grid projects are multi-year capital commitments: contracts are let, construction is staged, and a contractor mid-project has an enforceable claim. A 3-year linear phase-out lets in-flight grid contracts complete; net saving rises from 25,276.6 millió Ft in year 1 to the full 75,829.9 millió Ft in year 3, by which point new grid investment is on the network operator's balance sheet and the regulated tariff.
Átállási mechanizmus
Linear over 3 years, tracking run-off of in-flight grid contracts. Net saving rises from 25,276.6 millió Ft in year 1 to the full 75,829.9 millió Ft in year 3, by which point new grid investment is on the network operator's balance sheet and the regulated tariff.
Érintett csoportok
Grid-construction contractors with in-flight contracts (protected through run-off); the regulated network operator, which takes the financing function back; network users, who pay the cost of new capacity through tariffs rather than through general tax — a shift in who bears the cost, toward the people the capacity serves.
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