Legal aspects of energy price regulation for household cu-stomers and other specific entities

Abstract

In this article, the author will present issues directly related to the specific rules for the protection and supply of electricity to different groups of customers such as household customers, small and medium-sized enterprises, public institutions. By analysing legal provisions of the energy law and related laws relating to the values and objectives of the energy law, the author will determine the current legal state of affairs and, on this basis, she will try to create de lege lata and de lege ferenda conclusions. The Polish and European Union legislators are attempting to introduce normative mechanisms to the social problem of high energy prices. The range of entities encompassed by the new, protective legal instruments is broad, because it is not limited to citizens, but also includes groups of small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as various public institutions. The aforementioned entities are encompassed by the universal service namely the right to be supplied with electricity of a specified quality within their territory at competitive, easily and clearly comparable, transparent and non-discriminatory prices. In this publication, the author will try to answer the question - whether the enacted solutions are adequate and sufficient to protect the customer who is a household customer or other specific customers?