What are the consequences of the unauthorized price increase of some gas supply and heating enterprises of the National Development and Reform Commission?

Some gas supply and heating enterprises were investigated for unauthorized price increase of natural gas.

On June 65438+1 October1day, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the Notice on Carrying out Key Price Inspection in Urban Water Supply, Gas Supply, Heating and Telecommunications. On February 65438+February 19, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the Notice on Further Strengthening the Supervision of Winter Heating Price to Effectively Protect the People's Warm Winter, and deployed the competent price departments at all levels to carry out national prices in gas supply and heating. The inspection found that some gas supply and heating enterprises do not implement government pricing or government-guided prices, and charge fees in engineering renovation and installation. The local price departments have dealt with the problems found out according to law. The penalties for some illegal enterprises are as follows:

1. shangzhi city Zhongxin Thermal Power Company of Heilongjiang Province repeatedly charged the heating network engineering fee. According to the investigation, in September, 2065438+2007, shangzhi city Zhongxin Thermal Power Company of Heilongjiang Province charged 25 yuan /m2 heating grid-connected project fee for 102 households who had paid the grid-connected fee to Kang 'an Heating Property Company in the early stage, and charged 36 120 yuan. The price department of shangzhi city investigated the company's price violations, ordered the company to return all the overcharged price of 3610.2 million yuan to the users, and imposed a fine of 5410.9 million yuan.

2. Zhejiang Haiyan Natural Gas Co., Ltd. raised the price of natural gas without authorization. Haiyan Natural Gas Co., Ltd. arbitrarily raised the sales price of natural gas for non-residents from 20 1 16/October 28th to 201July 25th. Actually, it should implement 3 yuan /m3 and * * * sell natural gas 1972400 m3. The price department of Haiyan County ordered the company to immediately correct the price violations and refund the overcharged price of 40 19000 yuan.

Third, the local natural gas supply station of Xuanhan Hexin Natural Gas Co., Ltd. in Xuanhan County, Sichuan Province increased the price of natural gas in disguise. During the period from 20 16 to 20 17, Tuzhu Natural Gas Supply Station of Xuanhan Hexin Natural Gas Co., Ltd. charged the users more for the treatment of urban domestic waste per cubic meter of 0.2 yuan, which increased the price of natural gas in disguise and sold 65,438 civil natural gas. The price department of Xuanhan County investigated and ordered the company to refund the overcharged price of 3 1.62 million yuan to users.

4. Hengyuan Gas Station in Cao Xian County raised the price of CNG natural gas without authorization. 201165438+1October 27th 20165438+1October 30th Cao Xian Hengyuan Gas Station * * * sells CNG natural gas for vehicles 1098.33 cubic meters, which should be 4. The competent price department of Cao County ordered the gas station to immediately correct the above-mentioned illegal acts and confiscate the illegal income.

In addition, in order to maintain the price competition order in the natural gas market and protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, according to the report, the Price Supervision, Inspection and Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the National Development and Reform Commission began to investigate 17 enterprises such as Daqing Branch of China Petroleum and Natural Gas Co., Ltd. for allegedly violating the Anti-Monopoly Law.

After entering the winter, the consumption of natural gas has increased rapidly, and the transformation of heating projects is also in progress, and some behaviors that infringe on the interests of the people have occurred from time to time. The National Development and Reform Commission requires local price authorities to continue to take effective measures, highlight key inspection points, and urge relevant enterprises and units to strictly implement the relevant national price policies. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen price supervision and anti-monopoly law enforcement in the field of gas supply and heating, find and investigate cases that infringe upon the interests of the masses, and publicly expose serious cases of price violations through the news media.