BAKU, Azerbaijan, Mar. 7
By Ilkin Seyfaddini - Trend:
Uzbekistan plans to increase supply of population with heat energy, Trend reports with reference to the Uzbekistan's Presidential Decree.
Decree of the President of Uzbekistan from 20 April 2017 "On additional measures to improve the heating supply system and financial rehabilitation of heating enterprises" approved the "Road map" for the implementation of additional measures aimed at developing the heating system of Uzbekistan in 2019-2022.
These include the development of strategies for the comprehensive development and full-scale modernization of heating supply systems in the country's regions; introduction of modern information and energy-saving technologies for heat supply metering and monitoring; and phased installation of electronic household heat meters in apartment buildings and intra-apartment hot water meters with a radio module ("smart meters"), that transmit data from meters to an automated system for monitoring and recording heat and hot water.
In accordance with the decision of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, dated 20 April 2017 "On the Program of development of heat supply system for the period 2018-2022", 41 billion soum ($4.3 million) were allocated in 2019 for implementation of this program on development of heat supply system through centralized sources of funding. In 2020, it is planned to allocate 128 billion soum ($13.4 million, provided in the Investment Program for 2020).
In 2019, the level of tariffs for the population was set lower by 35 percent compared to the tariffs for wholesale consumers, in this regard, at the expense of the budget funds subsidies were allocated to heating enterprises in the amount of 286.4 billion soum ($30.1 million).
In 2020, state subsidizing of tariffs for population for heat supply services will also remain, and the approved parameters of the state budget envisage funds in the amount of 333.2 billion soum ($35 million) for payment of subsidies to heat supply enterprises to compensate for the price difference.
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