Electricity Quality: Proposals to Improve the Electric Power Industry Laws of the Russian Federation

The issues of regulating the requirements to electricity quality and electricity quality assurance are among the fundamental issues for the electric power industry. The current system of regulating the requirements to electricity quality is based on national standards that can be applied voluntarily. At the same time, regulatory control over these requirements is essential both for achieving such goals of state regulation of reliability and safety in the electric power industry as ensuring its stable, reliable, and safe operation, preventing emergencies associated with the operation of electric power industry facilities and power receivers of electricity consumers and for the long-term development of the electric power industry. In this article, the author studies the problems identified in the laws of the Russian Federation on the electric power industry in terms of regulation of the requirements to electricity quality and quality assurance and ways of solving these problems and contradictions.