Heating costs twice higher than previous year

The heat consumed last November cost the residents of Chisinau supplied with heat in a centralized way 160 million lei, as against 74 million lei the same month of 2010, the head of the municipal company “Infocom” Ion Margineanu has told Info-Prim Neo. ”Payments for heat of 106 million lei have been made so far. The level of payments is thus 66%. In November 2010, the level was 82%,” said Ion Margineanu. According to him, the heating of a square meter last November cost 20 lei on average. The Chisinau inhabitants paid about 660 lei for a one-room apartment, 1 020 lei for a two-room apartment, and 1 620-1 840 lei for a three- and four-room apartment. The data for December will be available in a week. On October 21, 2011, the National Agency for Energy Regulation approved a 9.9% increase in the heat charge, to 987 lei per gigacalorie. 1.5 to 2 gigacalories are consumed per month to heat a two-room apartment.