Termocom SA resumed supplying heat in the municipality of Chisinau according to the timetable of temperatures, deputy mayor Vladimir Cotet, who is responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the mains and heating system in the municipality, informed on January 14. According to Cotet, all the 2,804 blocks of flats connected to the centralised heating system are supplied with heat. The economic director of Termocom SA Mihai Arusoi confirmed this. He said yet that the heat supplier’s losses for December alone will be 69 million lei if the municipality does not continue to cover the difference between the heating charge of 233 lei paid by the population and the increased tariff of 540 lei set at the start of 2007. The local authorities said recently that they will pay the difference in charges until the Chisinau Municipal Council fixes a new tariff for the heat supplied by Termocom SA. Chisinau Mayor General Dorin Chirtoaca announced then than they came to an understanding with representatives of the thermoelectric plans, Termocom SA and Moldova-Gaz SA. The Chisinau administration promised to cover the difference in charges, while the given companies to supply heat in the necessary amounts. Termocom SA resumed supplying hot water after the local authorities transferred 48 million lei to it. But the radiators in apartments became colder because Termocom SA reduced the temperature of the supplied heat. The company’s administration argued that Moldova-Gaz SA reduced the volumes of natural gas supplied to the thermoelectric plants by 20% as Termocom could not pay for the current consumption. Asked by the mayor when Termocom will present the estimates for a new heating charge, Mihai Arusoi avoided answering. As Dorin Chirtoaca said earlier, after January 4 the heat supplier was to submit a report on the company’s expenditure for 2007 to the National Agency for Energy Regulation and then to the Chisinau Municipal Council for examination so as to approve a new heating charge.