DTEK found a violation at a woman’s address, but she does not recognize it and refuses to pay 9 559 hryvnia – what the court decided

DTEK client refuses to repay the debt of 9 559 UAH

DTEK’s employees found violations at a woman’s address, which was in an unauthorized connection to Electricity. She was charged an amount for electricity consumed at 9 559 UAH. However, she does not recognize this debt. This was stated in the decision of the Kyiv-Svyatoshinsky District Court of Kyiv region, published on September 17, 2025.

On January 25, 20121, the authorized representatives of DTEK, having presented their service certificates, in the presence of the woman conducted an inspection and made an act of violation No. 046082. At the site recorded violations of P.P. 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 5.5.5. Prare, which is contrary to paragraph 8.4.2, namely: “Unauthorized connection of electrical installations or wiring to the OSR network in violation of the accounting scheme”. She was charged with electricity, which is payable in the amount of UAH 9 559.

On September 28, 20122, the court received an appeal from a woman in which she denied the satisfaction of the claims in full. It is the owner of the land. The supply of electricity to the specified address is carried out in accordance with the contract for the provision of electricity distribution services of 14 December 2020. The connection and connection of the object to the electrical networks of the distribution system, including the installation of the metering device, was performed by DTEK. Under the terms of this connection agreement (connection), it paid the company 65 025 UAH. Since the metering device (electric meter) is installed outside its territory (homeownership), it removed the appliances at the beginning of the month at the beginning of the month, which made calculations for electricity consumed. On February 4, 2021, her husband found the absence of an electric meter on the support, and the household was left without electricity. On the same day, the police was filed with the theft of the electric meter, and the information was entered in the ERDR and the pre -trial investigation was launched. The information and circumstances set out in the statement of claim and acts are not true and contradictory by DTEK’s evidence. There is no evidence in the case file that it would be indicated that it has made an unauthorized connection.

What was the decision of the case? The court rejected the DTEK’s claim. The company did not prove the fact of unauthorized connection of electrical installations or wiring to the OSR network with a violation of the accounting scheme, as well as the defendant’s fault as the consumer of electricity.

“Since the means of accounting of electricity was not installed on the consumer object, it cannot be deposited for storage to the latter, and the defendant is not responsible for its storage, which is justified in the application for a statement of claim. Responsibility rests with the plaintiff’s operator, ie the plaintiff. Consumer consumer pays the operator of the system of unbroken electricity, determined in accordance with the requirements of the plaintiff. The defendant of the claim. Sufficiency and interconnection, as well as finding out all the circumstances of the case, the court concluded that there are no grounds for satisfying the claims of PJSC “DTEK Kyiv Regional Electricity” to recover the value of unwound electricity from the defendant, ”the court emphasized.

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