Moldova’s residential consumers’ difference in the tariffs for the first 150 cubic meters of natural gas and the first gigacalorie of heat will be partially covered.
This is provided for by the draft law on compensation of expenses for gas and heat energy consumption during the cold season, adopted by the parliament in the second reading. As noted by its author, chairman of the parliamentary commission for social protection, health care and family Dan Perciun, it is envisaged the following: for the first 50 cubic meters of gas, 67% of the difference between the price in the calculated month and October 2021 will be compensated, and for the next 100 cubic meters - 50% of this difference will becompensated. At the same time, compensation for heat energy will amount to 67% of the difference between the price in the calculated month and the previous price in October 2021 for the first gigacalorie consumed per family. At the same time, these compensations will also be received by citizens who are provided with heat energy produced by the boiler house of a residential building. The maximum amount of compensation for natural gas will be 540 lei, and for heating - 450 lei per month. As a reminder, the tariff for natural gas for residential consumers in October 2021 was 4.64 lei per cubic meter including VAT, and from November 1 the new tariff is 11.08 lei. The difference after the tariff increase is 6.44 lei. As Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita noted earlier, for the first 50 cubic meters of gas, consumers will pay 6.8 lei per cubic meter of gas, and for the next 50 to 150 cubic meters - 7.9 lei per cubic meter. Prime Minister also noted that the difference is compensated for from the state budget. Thus, for the first 50 cubic meters the government will compensate 4.3 lei from the gas tariff, and from 50 to 150 cubic meters - 3.2 lei from the tariff for 1 cu. m of gas. The compensation mechanism will look like this: the money will be transferred to the current account of natural gas and heat energy suppliers, who will monthly calculate the amount of compensation for the difference after the increase in gas and heat consumption tariffs for each household consumer. Invoices issued to residential consumers will separately indicate the total payable amount for the rendered services, the amount of the difference after the increase in tariffs for gas and heat consumption, the amount allocated from the state budget, and the amount payable by each of the residential consumers after recalculation. It is planned that 746 thousand household consumers will receive compensations for gas, and 222 thousand consumers connected to the central heating system in Chisinau and Balti will receive compensation for heat. In general, over 1 billion lei will be required to pay compensation in the cold period of 2021-2022. The funds required to compensate for the difference in prices within 5 months will amount to approximately 771 million lei for the consumed natural gas and about 340 million lei for the consumed heat. At the same time, 210 million lei have already been provided for in the course of adjusting the state budget for 2021, and 900 million lei were included in the draft Law on the State Budget for 2022. // 26.11.2021 – InfoMarket
