ERO audit to be published by end of February

The head of the Energy Regulatory Office, Alena Vitásková, who last week accused her predecessors of having illegally upped the prices of electricity from solar plants, said the audit on which she based her claim would be made public by the end of February. The ERO claims to have found serious irregularities in the purchase prices for solar power in the 2005–2011 period, which incurred damages to the tune of tens of billions of crowns. Meanwhile, the head of the Czech Photovoltaic Industry Association says that the audit on which Ms Vitáskova based her accusations was doctored and was intended to cover up the organization’s present failings.