After raising natural gas rates, the National Agency for Energy Regulation approved higher heating tariffs in Chisinau and Bălți. The price of electricity produced by thermoelectric plants were also raised, IPN reports.

The consumers served by Termoelectrica will pay for heat 2,169 lei per gigacalorie, up from the current tariff of 1,689 lei/Gcal. The tariff for the consumers served by the thermoelectric plant CET-Nord was raised from 1,834 lei/Gcal to 2,115 lei lei/Gcal.

The average annual price of the electric power produced by Termoelectrica was increased from 2.33 lei/kWh to 3.35 lei /kWh, without VAT. The electricity produced by CET-Nord will cost 3.11 lei/kWh, without VAT, up from 2.08 lei/kWh at present.

The tariff for the heat supplied by the municipal enterprise “Termogaz-Bălți” was raised from 1,946 lei/Gcal  to 2,538 lei/Gcal; by SA “Apă-Canal Chișinău” – from 1,479 lei/Gcal to 2,059 lei/Gcal; by the municipal heating enterprise “Rețelelor și Centralelor Termice Comrat” – from 1,900 lei/Gcal to 2,451 lei/Gcal; by the enterprise “Servicii Comunale Glodeni” – from 1,676 lei/Gcal to 2,274 lei/Gcal; by SA “Comgaz-Plus” – from 2,091 lei/Gcal to 2,718 lei/Gcal.

The tariffs approved by NAER on January 28 will be applied retroactively, as from January 1, 2022.

Last week, Parliament adopted a bill to increase the subsidy for heat for citizens from 67% to 80% of the value of the heating bill as from this month. This way, the subsidy was raised from 450 lei to at most 815 lei a month. The volume of heat for which the subsidy is paid was increased from 1 gigacalorie to 1.5 gigacalories.