heating

Continued cold weather has prompted Vilnius City to switch on the central heating system, nearly two weeks after it officially ended the season.

Vilnius is ending the heating season on Tuesday and Wednesday, the city’s municipality has announced, while other major cities seem to be in no rush to follow the move.

City Service, part of the Icor business group, which was in charge of the heating business of Vilnius kindergartens and schools, has been ordered by a court to pay 10.3 million euros to the Lithuanian capital.

Vilniaus Energija (Vilnius Energy), Lithuania's biggest district heating supplier controlled by France's Veolia, has asked the Stockholm arbitration to appoint an independent asset valuer in protest of the valuers selected by the municipal company Vilniaus Šilumos Tinklai (Vilnius Heating Grid, VST ...

The Lithuanian parliament has left the reduced 9-percent VAT rate on district heating in place until May 31, 2017, which means that district heating bills will not rise in January.

The reduced 9-percent VAT rate on district heating will remain in place until next June, the chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) said on Monday, admitting that municipalities have forced them to drop, at least for now, the idea of raising the rate to the standard 21 perc...

The French group Veolia, which owns heating companies in Lithuania, is suing the country for €100 million at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington. Veolia is demanding compensation for losses it allegedly sustained due to unfair treatment by the Lithuan...

Under the new scheme, proposed by the Lithuanian government to finance the maintenance of the Klaipėda liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, heating prices might inch up a little in several municipalities, but would drop in most others, the parliament was told on Tuesday.

Lithuania’s government plans to introduce an excise duty on natural gas used for heating from 2016. However, household users as well as organizations that receive support and charity will be exempted from the charge.

Lithuanian Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis says he cannot tolerate the situation when municipal heat producer, Vilniaus Energija (Vilnius Energy) has been deliberately overpaying for gas for the second month in a row, thus increasing heating bills for consumers. Due to such actions of heat providers,...

Over 60 biofuel plants that are currently being built will become operational in 2015-2016 heating season. Lithuanian biofuel will generate two thirds of district heating volume.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that the ruling coalition has left room for populism in the future when it rejected proposals to lift VAT exemption on heating. He says that the coalition should deliberate whether it has enough political will to admit that the VAT exemption should...

Social Democrat member of the Seimas Birutė Vesaitė is against the plans to lift the VAT exemption on heating.

Member of Lithuanian Parliament Kęstutis Masiulis (Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats) talks against the plans to lift VAT exemption on heating and says that it is a tax increase for the middle class.