Mayor Fandakova: The Heating Season for Sofia Residents will be Ensured

"The heating season for Sofia residents will be ensured and there will be no shortage of gas". This was stated by the Mayor of Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova, in the studio of Nova TV.

"We all consider the prices and the possibilities. We worry about what lies ahead this winter. We carefully monitor the costs of municipal buildings, schools, theaters, galleries, but the most important thing is the heating of the people and whether there will be gas during this heating season," she said.

"Yesterday, I had a meeting with the Minister of Energy, who assured me that the heating season for the people of Sofia will be ensured and there will be no shortage of gas," said Fandakova.

According to her, "Toplofikatsia Sofia" (Heating Systems Sofia) provides heating to about 1 million people and this service has no alternative. "That is why it is important that the threats that we heard in the last days of the previous chairman of Energy Commission, that Sofia will be without gas from September 1, are no longer on the agenda," commented the capital's mayor.

Yordanka Fandakova also commented on the debts of Toplofikatsia Sofia.

"We are all worried after the latest decision of EWRC from this week for a gas price of nearly BGN 300 per megawatt hour. For both citizens and businesses, these are unbearable prices. "Toplofikatsia Sofia buys the gas at the same price. At the same time, the price at which it sells thermal energy is based on the fixed price of gas from the EWRC of BGN 122. This is a difference of nearly BGN 180 for each megawatt hour and is a continuous accumulation of new obligations", she pointed out and specified that the expectations are for August alone, from these...