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The municipality of Vilnius has announced that the heating in the capital will be turned on from Thursday. Deputy Mayor Valdas Benkunskas told BNS that it is initially planned to turn it on in educational and medical institutions and, starting Friday, in residents.
“Within five days, radiators should start heating up all over Vilnius,” said V. Benkunskas.
Kauno Energija, which supplies heat to Kaunas, announced that the municipality had announced the heating season starting Thursday.
According to the Klaipėda Municipality, the budgetary preschool and general education institutions began to heat up on Wednesday, and other buildings will heat up from Thursday.
Šiaulių energija, which provides district heating to Šiauliai, reported that the supply of heat to the city’s care and educational institutions should start no later than Wednesday, and all other consumers no later than Friday.
The Panevėžys City Municipality announced the heating season on Wednesday.
Record low heat prices, but not necessarily low bills
The municipality of the capital stresses that heating prices in October, compared to October last year, are falling by a fifth, and “heating prices so low in the heating season have not been in all the decade”.
True, it is noted that the record heating price per kilowatt-hour does not mean that district heating consumers will receive small bills.
“If the residential house is leaking, the heating substation has not been renovated, there are significant heat losses,” the report said.
The Kaunas City Municipality announced in early October that this heating season, Kaunas residents, Kaunas district residents and Jurbarkas will achieve “the lowest heating price in October for 23 years.”
Inga Žilienė, president of the State Energy Regulatory Council (VERT), says that heating prices have been cut in half in eight years: “Lithuanians will have the lowest price since 2012 (…) The average price of heating has fallen by 53% in eight years “, – BNS I said I. Žilienė.
In October, consumers in the boiler room at Pravieniškės correctional facility will pay less for heating (2.61 cents per kWh with VAT), and consumers at the Biržų šiluma branch of Litesko will pay more (8.29 cents) .
For Kaunas consumers, heat in October should be 27.5 percent cheaper than in October last year. at 2.92 cents, in Vilnius – 20.4 percent. at 3.4 cents, in Klaipeda – 13.7 percent. at 3.84 cents, in Panevėžys – 11.1 percent. at 4.49 cents, and in Šiauliai – 0.5 percent. at 3.89 cents.
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