The final preparations of the "Belgrade power plants" system for the new one heating season are in progress. Since October 1, when the functional trials began, the contact center has received a total of 300 calls from citizens, of which 75 complained about leaking radiators. RTS.
Vanja Vukić, director of the PUC "Beogradska Elektrana", said that they receive about 100 calls a day, and that their workers' priority is to go out to the field to solve malfunctions, and that the season most likely won't start before October 15.
Do not fix anything yourself
Vukić also called on citizens to allow workers access to the premises of substations in order to solve problems, stressing that unauthorized persons are not allowed to enter them in order to avoid incidents.
"Our system is specific because it is idle for six months of the year. When water circulation starts, certain problems and malfunctions occur. The task of 'Belgrade power plants' is to get out on the field as soon as possible," says Vukić.
He notes that the temperature in the apartments during the heating season must be at least 21 degrees, and that all energy sources, on the basis of which the price of heating is formed, are provided throughout Serbia.
"If the average temperature is below 12 degrees, we will start heating before October 15." According to the forecast, however, in the next ten days it will not be necessary to turn it on", concludes the director of PUK "Beogradska elektrana Vanja Vukić".
While functional tests are in progress, more than 100 teams are on duty every day from 7 a.m. to 19 p.m
When the heating season starts on October 15, there will be more of them, when it will be clear how 35 heat sources and more than nine and a half thousand substations work.
Increase in heating costs
As the portal "Vremena" wrote, heating plants in Serbia are correcting their prices, so many cities in Serbia are facing an increase in heating prices.
In Kruševac, heating is more expensive by 20 percent, in Kragujevac by 15,6, in Subotica the fixed part of the price has increased by 19,22 percent, and the variable part, which is paid according to consumption, by 8,40.
In Belgrade, heating is more expensive by 8,92 percent, and in Kraljevo by 1,42 percent.
In Niš, only the fixed part increased by 27,06 percent, while the price of the movable part decreased by 8,89 percent.
For now, heating is cheaper only in Sremska Mitrovica, by 10 percent.
There are 60 heating plants in Serbia and prices are set by local governments.
In the "Association of heating plants of Serbia" they say that they have been confirmed that Zrenjanin, Smederevo, Trstenik, Novi Sad, Leskovac will not change the heating prices, and for the other heating plants they still have no information if and when the local governments will decide on their requests for heating price correction.
Source: RTS