Mykolaiv residents paid 93% of their debts for the last heating season, but ₴248 million remained

As of August 2024, the total debt of Mykolaiv residents to «Mykolaivoblteploenergo» for heat supply services amounts to about 248 million hryvnias.

This was reported by NikVesti at the utility company «Mykolaivoblteploenergo».

At the same time, during the past heating season, the townspeople paid 93% of their debts to the company, said Mykolaivovblteploenergo head Mykola Lohvinov.

«For the 2023-24 season, people paid 93% and the debt now amounts to about 102 million hryvnias. This is for last season, and the rest are debts from previous seasons,» he added.

The regional thermal energy company added that «the people of Mykolaiv are properly paying for heat energy supply services.»

«The enterprise has the ability to carry out all the necessary repair work and properly prepare for the upcoming heating period,» they added.

What about the debts in Mykolaiv?

As of January 2024, residents of Mykolaiv owe more than 241 million hryvnias for water supply and drainage services. Among the regions of Ukraine, the people of Mykolaiv became one of the biggest debtors for water supply services.

In social networks, they began to publish advertising videos with threats to block Mykolaiv residents' credit cards due to debt. In a comment to NikVesti, the director of KP Borys Dudenko explained that the purpose of such videos is to convey to the population the need to pay for debts.

And as of the end of October 2023, the total debt of the residents of Mykolaiv for heat supply services to the regional thermal energy company amounted to 213 million hryvnias. By that time, the townspeople had already paid 95% of the debt for the 2022/23 heating season, and currently the sum of last year's debt is 90 million hryvnias. The director of Mykolayivoblteploenergo stated that in 2024 the company plans to introduce a two-rate tariff. This means that residents of Mykolaiv will pay for heating throughout the year, not just during the heating season, but in winter the payments will be higher.

Vitalii Kim, the head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, believes that the large number of debts for housing and communal services in the region is connected with the impact of the war on the financial and psychological situation of people.