Big cities prepare to end the heating season, first in Klaipeda



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Raimundas Endrikis, Head of the Department of Modernization of Housing, Administration and Energy of the Municipality of Kaunas, confirmed that the heating season in Kaunas will be closed soon.

“The heating season is officially scheduled to end in the second half of this week,” he said.

Diana Gerasimovienė, head of the building management department of the Klaip departamentoda municipalities, announced that the heating season in the port city closes today.

“The director of the Klaipėda city municipality administration has already signed an order at the end of the heating season; according to her, the heating season in Klaipėda, with the exception of pre-school educational institutions with budget of the city municipality of Klaipėda, ends today, May 3.

Usually the heating season in Klaipeda ends in the second half of April, last year due to unfavorable weather, heating continued for almost the entire month of April.

This heating season (2020-2021) in Klaipeda started on October 15. 2019 The heating season in Klaipeda started on October 7. and it ended on April 30, ”he said.

The deputy mayor of the city of Vilnius, V. Benkunskas, also assured in the program “Delfi rytas” that the heating in the capital will be switched off as of Wednesday.

“We had a meeting in the morning, we can see that the air temperature will reach 15-16 degrees this week, it is true, the nights are quite cool, but we will announce the end of the heating season from Wednesday and Little by little the housing blocks are being disconnected, it will continue for another week ”, he said.

According to him, last year, the heating was completed on April 24, last year – on April 19, 2017. The heating season was extended and ended on May 9.

Asked if it happens that the heating season is coming to an end, and when the outside climate cools down, the heating must be turned on again, the deputy mayor assured him that it was.

“It is the worst thing that municipalities can do to turn it off, turn the fat back on, because there are technical things that take time, and sometimes that extra detour doesn’t make sense because the winter and summer fight in April and May is intense.

In history, in general, there have been cases of this type, but in this case, we have fairly accurate weather forecasts, we can see the weather situation for the next two weeks and decide not to make decisions too quickly and at the same time not to do so. it takes too long, ”he said.

V. Benkunskas emphasized that residents of apartment buildings can decide for themselves when to start and end the heating season.

If the majority of the home occupants decide to end the heating season in their home, they must notify the heating provider and the heat will be turned off.

“In this case, we have more than one apartment building in Vilnius, which is renovated and they no longer need the heating service and they have made those decisions,” said V. Benkunskas.

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