Four key words: unfair competition behavior in power market

With the deepening of the reform of the power system, the market competition is becoming more and more fierce, and the power market began to grow disorderly. Not only a series of unfair competition behaviors appeared in the power selling companies, but also the phenomenon of power users’ breach of contract increased. Not long ago, Sichuan electric power trading center also issued a letter on Soliciting Opinions on the implementation rules of Sichuan electric power market supervision (for Trial Implementation), which stipulates that power selling companies shall not harm the business reputation of competitors or crowd out competitors by improper means.

 

 

 

Today, Yi Dianjun is with you

 

 

 

An inventory of unfair competition in several kinds of power stores

 

 

 

The trap of “radish chapter”

 

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In 2017, Guangxi electric power market presented a case about Jiaoge, a power selling company. It is worth mentioning that the plaintiff is the entrusted representative of the power selling business and the defendant is B power selling company.

 

 

 

Causes of events

 

 

 

The plaintiff and the defendant once signed a cooperation agreement. After the agreement was signed, the plaintiff and 7 household electricity enterprises signed a power purchase and sale contract. According to the agreement between the two parties, the defendant should pay the plaintiff’s agency fee, but the defendant shuffled for various reasons and did not pay the agency fee.

 

 

 

In court, the two parties did not conspire against each other. The defendant B, the seller company, argued that the defendant had never entrusted the plaintiff to act as the seller in the name of the defendant without paying the agent fee to the plaintiff. In the cooperation agreement provided by the plaintiff, although Party B has stamped the company seal of “B electricity selling company”, it is found that the seal number is inconsistent with the record materials of B electricity selling company’s seal in the public security organ, and the seven household electricity enterprises have not purchased electricity from B electricity selling company so far.

 

 

 

As a result, the court ruled that B electricity company won the case, and the “radish chapter” in this kind of electricity sales also came to the public’s attention, which played a certain warning effect.

 

 

 

Jiaoge of “one daughter marry more”

 

 

 

In recent years, due to the lack of legal awareness and poor contractual spirit of some power users, the number of illegal phenomena has increased. The most shocking thing is the situation of “one woman and two marriage” of power users. After one power user signed the power purchase and sale contract with the power sale company, he signed the contract with another power sale company, and registered and bound on the trading platform first Finally, the court determined that the power user had breached the contract, which required compensation of 1.38 million yuan.

 

 

 

Pretending to be a user and asking to exit the store

 

 

 

In Sichuan electric power market, there has been a case of “a power selling company pretending to be a large user, calling and writing a report to the provincial economic and Information Commission and Chengdu Economic and Information Commission, requesting to withdraw from the direct power trading in 2018”. This kind of behavior, which seriously disrupts the order of shopping malls, was eventually discovered by the power trading center and publicly notified.

 

 

 

Pretending to be a trading center and participating in trading

 

 

 

On November 8, Guangdong Electric Power Trading Center issued a statement, indicating that a small number of people pretended to be the trading center to understand the power consumption status of power users and recommend the power selling company to them. At the same time, Guangdong Yuedian power sales also issued a statement that a small number of illegal elements sent false price information to customers in the name of Guangdong Yuedian Power Sales Co., Ltd. or “Yuedian”, aiming to disrupt the shopping malls, confuse the public and make profits from it.

 

 

 

In addition, there are such behaviors as contract breach, bid up prices, and sales arrears in the shopping malls. Yi Dianjun believes that instead of disrupting the order of the shopping malls and seizing users through bad competition, it’s better to consider from a long time to improve the service and professional standards of the enterprises. However, with the deepening of the electricity reform, the relevant government departments will continue to strengthen supervision and improve the system design In order to guide the development of power market towards standardization.