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Ukrainians have the opportunity to reject a provider whose rates will be too high.
Gasoline prices vary from 6 to almost 9 hryvnia per cubic meter / photo by UNIAN
Since November, Ukraine’s gas suppliers have increased gas tariffs for the population.
This is indicated in the plot “target =” _ blank “> TSN.ua.
Read alsoThe Cabinet has changed the procedure for calculating heating rates.
As the plot goes, in different regions gas prices vary from 6 to almost 9 hryvnia per cubic meter.
As experts warn, this price hike may not be the last.
Today, some 50 companies supply gas to the population, most of which have already announced rate increases.
Maxim Rabinovich, director of the gas supply company Naftogaz Ukraine LLC, said that the increase in tariffs is an exclusively seasonal phenomenon.
“The price of the European centers of the world is growing during the heating season, this is an absolutely normal practice,” Rabinovich said.
As the plot goes, Ukrainians have the opportunity to refuse a provider whose rates will be too high. To do this, you must write a suitable request and indicate the desired new provider.
The Ministry of Social Policy says that the rise in gas prices will not affect the beneficiaries of the subsidies. If the beneficiaries did not increase their income and there was no increase in pensions or wages in their families, this winter they will pay for gas the same as last season.
Gas market
- On August 1, 2020, a natural gas market was opened in Ukraine for domestic consumers who were able to independently choose their gas supplier.
- The period of validity of the special public obligations (PSO) of the state company Naftogaz of Ukraine for the population has also expired, but Teplokommunenergo will continue to receive gas at a price regulated by Naftogaz.
- The average price of imported natural gas in Ukraine in September 2020 was $ 140.54 per thousand cubic meters, 32.5% more than in August 2020.
- Gas supply companies in the framework of the competitive natural gas market offered the population in October to buy gas at a price of 4.7 to 6.8 UAH per cubic meter. m, while the minimum price of gas is 7.1% higher than a month earlier, and the maximum price decreased by 2%.
- In the spring of 2020, after the conclusion of a transit contract between Naftogaz from Ukraine and Russia Gazprom, gas prices on the European market began to plummet. In the summer, the price reached $ 80 per thousand cubic meters. m, while in January 2020 the average price of imported natural gas in Ukraine was $ 175.26 per thousand cubic meters. meter.
- At the beginning of September 2020, the Cabinet of Ministers at its meeting on Friday approved a bill, according to which the National Regulatory Commission in the Spheres of Energy and Public Services (NKREKU) is deprived of the right to set rates of heating, hot water, water supply and sewerage with the transfer of these functions to the municipalities.
- In October 2020, analysts predicted an increase in gas prices for Ukrainians.
- On October 20, 2020, the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee for Energy, Housing and Public Services, Andriy Gerus, announced that gas tariffs for the population of Ukraine would increase.
- On October 27, 2020 NJSC “Naftogaz of Ukraine” announced the setting of gas prices for the population in November 2020 at the level of 6.33 UAH / cubic meter. m with VAT and excluding the cost of distribution (delivery).
- On October 28, 2020, the Cabinet of Ministers changed the procedure for calculating heating rates.
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