Despite predictions that if the capital city municipality ends heating too early and resumes it again, Vilnius residents will have to pay more for it, their bills for April will be half as much.
According to “Vilniaus šilmos nettki” (VŠT), 50 sq. m. heating an apartment in a renovated apartment building will cost residents of the capital 17 euros on average, and 29 euros in an unrenovated apartment building.
“For 50 sq. m. the average April bill for heating an apartment in a renovated, energy-efficient apartment building is 17 euros, in March customers paid 39 euros, in April of the last heating season – 23 euros. Residents of non-renovated, energy-inefficient apartment buildings will pay 29 euros, when this service cost an average of 69 euros in March, and 36 euros last April,” Rūta Jasiulionienė, head of the VŠT Client Team, said in the announcement.
According to VŠT, in April the price of heat in Vilnius was the lowest during this heating season – a kilowatt hour of heat cost residents 5.96 cents without VAT. Compared to March (6.97 ct/kWh without VAT), the price of heat decreased by 16 percent, and compared to April last year, the price of heat decreased by a fifth.
“The month of April was unusual both in terms of its weather and the resulting situation. April 9 after announcing the end of the heating season, snow fell and the outdoor air temperature dropped, so the city resumed the heating season in response to the actual outdoor air temperature. However, some customers decided not to continue heating in their apartment buildings”, noted the representative of VŠT.
ELTA reminds that this year’s heating season was canceled in Vilnius on April 9, but when the weather cooled down and snow fell, heating was resumed on April 22.
