Subject Matter of Contract of Services for Maintaining Reserve Heat Capacity

Abstract

In the paper, the author analyzes the subject matter of the contract for the provision of services to maintain reserve heat capacity. The author notes that the contract for the provision of services to maintain reserve heat capacity is almost the only contract in the field of heat supply, the definition of which is not in the legislation. At the same time, this problem is not covered in the legal literature. To disclose the subject of the contract under study, the author refers to such legal categories as «power», «heat capacity», «reservation (booking)", «reserve heat capacity». The paper presents the provisions of the doctrine and judicial practice on the nature of power in the energy sector, offers the author’s own point of view on the essence of reservation (reservation) as a legal category. On the basis of the study, the author formulates the definition of the contract in question, which is absent in the legislation, and determines its place in the system of civil law contracts as a non-defined contract.