Photo: PixelsThe lowest energy costs for heating in the 2023/2024 heating season, according to prices from the first half of October 2023 for an average living space of 60 square meters, will be for households that heat using wood and will cost RSD 56.000, while households that heat with electricity will pay the most and about 200.000 dinars, announced the Energy Agency of Serbia
The lowest heating costs refer to areas of Serbia where wood can be purchased at lower prices (for example, 6.790 dinars per cubic meter) and if households have newer stoves with higher efficiency, about 65.000 dinars, writes RTS.
Significantly higher costs, 92.500 dinars, will be incurred by households that use more expensive firewood (with a price of 9.500 dinars per m3) and have stoves of lower efficiency.
Slightly lower costs of 84.600 dinars will be for households that use pellets, if they are burned in more efficient stoves designed for this fuel.
Heating using natural gas will also be favorable this heating season compared to other types of heating because it will amount to 59.500 dinars, which is only 3.500 dinars more expensive than the most favorable heating using wood.
The costs of heating with coal have not changed compared to the previous heating season and will amount to 71.900 to 77.700 dinars, depending on the type of coal used.
Households that use thermoaccumulation stoves will have costs of 81.700 dinars, but only if cheaper night electricity is exclusively used. Refilling the furnace using more expensive electricity only for two hours a day increases the costs by 40 percent, so that they amount to 113.600 dinars.
Households that use electricity directly in heating elements and boilers for floor heating, propane butane gas and heating oil will have the highest energy costs for heating. For the purchase of energy sources or energy, which is needed to heat an average apartment throughout the season, they must allocate about 200.000 dinars for electricity, 173.000 dinars for fuel oil and 156.000 dinars for propane butane gas.
Gas and electricity have become more expensive
Compared to the previous year, the price of coal has not changed, while the prices of firewood are lower by about 11 percent and pellets are lower by 12 percent.
The price of propane butane gas is lower by seven percent, as well as the price of heating oil, which is reduced by eight percent. The price of natural gas for households has increased by 31 percent, while electric heating is more expensive by about 27 percent.
The stated amounts include only the costs of purchasing energy, i.e. fuel, and do not include investment costs (eg the purchase of furnaces and the installation of central heating installations) and the costs of periodic inspections and maintenance.
Insulation and energy efficiency
AERS advises citizens to seek the help of experts when choosing a heating method.
"If you can, insulate your living space and replace the windows." If you are buying new furnaces and boilers, choose the ones that are as energy efficient as possible," it was stated on the AERS website.
To heat an average insulated living space of 60 square meters at 20 degrees Celsius for 16 hours a day in the entire apartment, 180 days in the heating season, energy of about 9.000 kWh is required. The average estimated consumption for heating in Serbia is 150 kWh per square meter.
When analyzing heating energy costs, the efficiency of the devices used is taken into account.
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