Nikolay Shulginov: “More than 152 billion rubles will be attracted to the heat supply price zones”

Moscow: The Government of Russia and the Ministry of Energy are considering applications for the transition to the target model of the heat market in eight cities with a total volume of declared investments in the heat supply sector of 60 billion rubles, Nikolai Shulginov said at a meeting of the State Council working group in the field of Energy.

The Ministry of Energy is considering applications from Penza, Cheboksary, Novocheboksarsk, Saransk, Kirovo-Chepetsk, Togliatti and Abakan. Biysk’s application has been submitted to the Government of Russia. In 2018-2020, 13 settlements have already been assigned to the price zones of heat supply, including two cities with a population of one million – Samara and Krasnoyarsk.

“In total, over 152 billion rubles will be attracted to the price zones. In addition, we expect that in the near future documents will be submitted for several cities of the Far Eastern Federal District, ”Nikolai Shulginov said.

In 2017-2019, a new system of industry functioning was created in Russia – the so-called “alternative boiler house” model, based on stable long-term regulation rules, taking into account the balance of interests of consumers and producers. Two key changes are the pricing system and the system of relations between consumers, heat supply organizations and administrations of settlements.