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Title in national language: 
Федеральный закон от 26.03.2003 № 35 "Об электроэнергетике" (в ред. от 01.07.2021)
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
No
Draft Year: 
2003
Effective Start Year: 
2021
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Law
Economic Sector: 
Energy, Power
Energy Types: 
Power, Renewable, Bioenergy, Geothermal, Hydropower, Solar, Wave and Tidal, Wind, Other
Issued by: 
Adopted by the State Duma - Lower House of the Federal Assembly, endorsed by the Federal Council - Upper House of the Federal Assembly
Notes: 
No English translation available
Overall Summary: 
The present Federal Law establishes legal foundations for economic relations in the field of electric power production and consumption, defines the authority of governmental bodies for regulating these relations, the principal rights and duties of the electric power industry entities (including cogeneration) and electricity and heat consumers (as stipulated by Art. 1).
Access
Energy access priorities: 
Regulation of Access to Electric Grids and Electricity Transmission Services. Non-discriminatory access to electricity transmission services shall be established by the Government of the Russian Federation [...].
Environment
Energy environmental priorities: 
[E]nsuring environmental security of the electric power industry.
Pricing
Energy pricing: 
Art. 23. National regulation of electric power prices (tariffs) shall ensure achieving balance among the interests of heat and electricity suppliers and consumers. The Law targets securing the affordability of the above-mentioned types of energy and full return on investments. -- The government regulation of prices (tariffs) in the electric power industry may be performed based on the long-term parameters of regulation of activities of the entities for a period of not less than five years (for a period of not less than three years in case of the first setting of the above-mentioned prices (tariffs) or price (tariff) limits) in accordance with the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
Investment
Energy sector investment priorities: 
Art. 29 "Investment Policy of the Government in the Electric Power Industry". The investment policy of the government in the electric power industry shall be aimed at ensuring its sustainable development, developing energy conservation, and shall envision attraction of investment into all sectors of the electric power industry and the strengthening of government control of the efficiency of investments in the areas of activity of natural monopolies.
Investment climate development: 
[E]nsuring economically feasible return on investment used by electric power industry entities to which government regulation of electricity and heat prices (tariffs) applies.
Governance
Energy management principles: 
Principles of economic relations regulation and policy foundations in the field of the electric power regulation comprise the following: 1) ensuring energy security of the Russian Federation; 2) enhancing technological integrity of electric power industry; 3) ensuring uninterruptible and reliable functioning of the electric power industry for the purposes of meeting consumer demand for electricity; 4) freedom of economic activity with due consideration of restrictions by federal law; 5) balancing the interests of heat and electricity suppliers and consumers; 6) ensuring non-discriminatory and stable conditions to perform entrepreneurial activity in the main areas of the electric power industry; 7) contributing through a set of measures provided for by federal laws to the development of Russian power engineering and instrument-making industry, electrical industry and related service sector; [...].
Energy institutional structures: 
Art. 10 (as amended by Federal Law No. 250-FZ of November 4, 2007). 1. The Unified National (All-Russian) Power Grid management organization shall perform activities related to the development of the grid and construction of electric grid facilities being part of the Unified National (All-Russian) Power Grid in accordance with the procedure established by article 42 of the present Law. The above-mentioned activities shall include measures aimed at eliminating technological constraints on electricity flows among the regions of the Russian Federation and developing the transmission capacity of electric grids to ensure capacity distribution by power plants. Such measures shall be financed using proprietary and raised funds of the Unified National (All-Russian) Power Grid management organization, as well as any other sources not prohibited by law. For development purposes the Unified National (All-Russian) Power Grid the Unified National (All-Russian) Power Grid management organization shall develop the long-term models and programs of development of Unified National (All-Russian) Power Grid approved in accordance with the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation. For the purposes of organizing the technical and technological measures for the development of the Unified Power System of Russia to be taken by the system operator it shall participate in developing and agreeing the above-mentioned models and programs. Regulation of the investing activities of the Unified National (All-Russian) Power Grid management organization, including the approval of long-term models and programs of development of Unified National (All-Russian) Power Grid, capital investment plans and their enforcement, shall be carried out by the federal executive bodies in accordance with the procedure defined by the Government of the Russian Federation. 2. Any entities, in addition to the Unified National (All-Russian) Power Grid management organization, shall be entitled to build transmission lines in accordance with the procedure established by article 42 of this Federal Law. Entities involved in such construction shall have the right to the engineering connection of built transmission lines to the existing electric grids in accordance with article 26 of this Federal Law.