/Pogled Information/ They submitted the requests for a rise in warmth power costs to KEVR earlier than it turned clear that pure fuel would develop into cheaper by 40%
A number of heating techniques within the nation, together with these in Sofia, Veliko Tarnovo, Vratsa, Pernik and others, have requested drastic will increase in heating and scorching water costs from April 1.
We recall the odds by which some district heating corporations wished a rise: Gabrovo – 108%, Veliko Tarnovo – 88.63%, Ruse – 48%, Petnik – 33%, Vratsa – 23%, Razgrad – 17.46%, Burgas – 16.49 %, Plovdiv – 14.7%, Sofia – 3.43%
The scandalous calls for shocked and angered the prime minister, who referred to as it a “provocation of some non-public people” and talked about the title of Hristo Kovacki. This sounded unusual in opposition to the background of the truth that one of many submitted functions was from the municipal “Heating Sofia”, whose principal is the capital’s mayor Yordanka Fandakova.
A couple of days after the peak of the scandal, the Affiliation of Heating Firms in Bulgaria (ATDB) got here out with a typical place justifying that the functions in query had been submitted earlier than March 31, when Gazprom and Bulgargaz reached an settlement to decrease the value of pure fuel by extra of 40% as of August 2019.
However the query of why the businesses didn’t withdraw their functions then stays pending.
Right here is the official place of ATDB:
“Formally, on behalf of the “Affiliation of Heating Firms in Bulgaria”, we need to clearly state the next. Over the previous two days, manipulated statements and interpretations have been circulating within the media relating to functions submitted by the heating corporations to the “Fee for Power and Water Regulation” for value will increase of thermal power.
Categorically we declare that a part of the knowledge that was printed within the public area is incorrectly introduced. This goals at a provocation of people that play with the temper of the society by asserting a value improve for any service or commodity providing. The intention is to plant the false information that regardless of the discount within the value of pure fuel, warmth power will develop into costlier. The assertion in query doesn’t correspond to the reality in any approach.
It’s a incontrovertible fact that heating corporations submitted functions for the approval of warmth power costs for the brand new regulatory interval 2020-2021, however this occurred, in line with the necessities of the legislation, on the finish of March 2020 earlier than the KEVR choice to scale back costs of pure fuel.
De facto and de jure, nonetheless, none of those value statements could be authorised on this kind, as a result of the heating corporations themselves explicitly wrote of their paperwork that the calculations had been made earlier than the value discount of pure fuel from April 1 by greater than 42% . That’s, the district heating corporations themselves have clearly and appropriately indicated that their value findings don’t take into consideration the cheapening of the blue gasoline.
The heating corporations didn’t have the chance to replicate the discount of the blue gasoline of their value functions, as a result of the obligatory deadline for submitting them to the power regulator by legislation is March 31, earlier than the official announcement by choice of the brand new decrease fuel value.
Typically the value of fuel has the best weight within the pricing of warmth power. It can essentially be taken into consideration and can lead not solely to the preservation of the present value of thermal power, but additionally to its discount. The latter will likely be achieved after the recalculation of its worth in comparison with the already accepted decrease costs agreed by Bulgargaz. The ultimate choice on that is made solely by KEVR. Makes an attempt at manipulation are the claims that each single value requested by the heating corporations is accepted. In any case, within the ultimate choice of the KEVR of July 1 of every 12 months, the costs of thermal power are calculated with the value of pure fuel in impact at the moment, and never on the time of submission of the functions.
In tough days, like immediately, we stand behind the pursuits of Bulgarian residents, who’ve trusted the heating corporations utilizing the providers they provide. We’re adamant that costs for warmth power shoppers won’t solely not improve, however quite the opposite will likely be diminished.
We urge within the circumstances of a pandemic and a state of emergency to not speculate on the fears of the general public, as a result of somebody has determined to pay a dividend on the backs of individuals and provoke with false data.
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