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In Ukraine, the price of heating has increased by 2021. At a meeting on Thursday, December 24, the National Commission, which carries out state regulation in the areas of electricity and utilities (NEURC), revised production rates of heat for the population, budgetary and religious organizations and other consumers by 2021 for 23 cogeneration and cogeneration plants.
At the same time, heating rates for the population were increased for the 23 companies that submitted applications.
The smallest increase was the fee for Dneprovskaya CHPP (5.5%) and, above all, for Euro-Reconstruction LLC (by 49.7%).
Among the companies for which the rates for the population have increased the most are the CHPP of Novorazdolskaya and Novoyavorivskaya (both OOO Naftogaz Teplo, by 37.1% and 34.1%), Belotserkovskaya CHPP (33.2%) , OOO Sumyteploenergo (for 25%), Chernigovskaya CHPP (Tekhnova LLC, for 24.1%), as well as two cogeneration units of Miskteplovodoenergia KP (33.5%) and Khmelnitskteplokommunenergo KP (29.3%).
After the increase, the weighted average tariff for the supply of heat to the population of 23 companies amounted to 1,121.71 UAH / Gcal.
The highest rate for the Severodonetsk CHPP is UAH 1471.54 / Gcal, the lowest for the Eskhar CHPP-2 (Kharkiv Region) – UAH 653.99 / Gcal.
NEURC substantiated the need to increase thermal energy rates in 2021 through a significant decrease in the volume of thermal energy production, an increase in the payroll of licensees, an increase in the prices of fuels and energy resources, as well as an increase in the costs of services for the distribution of natural gas.
Note that the CHPP heat production rate is not yet a population heating rate. But one of its components is also significant.
“In total, there are three components to the heating fee structure: the heat production, heat transport and distribution fee. That is, NERC has now revised one, and the most significant part of the fee, for heat. “, explained the director of the Ukrainian Housing Union, Alexander. Skubchenko.
According to the head of the department of housing and communal infrastructure of the Public Council under the State Administration of the City of Kiev Oleg Popenko, the heat production in CHP in the structure of the heating tariff occupies up to 90%.
That is, if the rate for heat production for “Euroreconstruction” has grown by almost 50%, then the cost of heating for the population, in theory, should increase not less than 30%.
But to expose new price tags to people, utilities must also approve them, at local authorities or at the NERC (if they are National Commission licensees). And as one of the arguments to increase rates for the population, they can present new price tags for heat production in CHPP.
“But these are nuances. In fact, heating rates for people have started to increase,” says Popenko.
According to Skubchenko, bringing heating rates for the population to an “economically justified level” is one of the structural beacons that our authorities signed in a memorandum with the IMF. Therefore, it is not surprising that the rates for cogeneration plants increased precisely with the arrival of the Fund’s mission to Ukraine, says the expert.
The Memorandum also stipulates the introduction of new agreements, in addition, for October. But the implementation of this item was postponed due to the epidemic until May.
“The new contracts will divide heating into three components: heating, delivery and distribution,” he explained.
Oleg Popenko added that utilities can also increase the price of other components of the rate: delivery and distribution of heat. But it’s still unclear how much they will go up in price.
Earlier, “Strana” wrote that a year ago Zelensky promised to cut heating rates in half.
We also reported that Ukrainians were warned that heating gas prices would rise monthly.
