In May, Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 683 came into force, which approved a new algorithm for calculating payments for heat in the context of massive damage to infrastructure as a result of Russian shelling. Therefore, in June, residents of the capital received bills with heating charges for January, while the amounts in them were lower by an average of 40%. The KSCA reports this.
The director of SOP Energosbyt of the Kyivteploenergo enterprise, Konstantin Lopatin, spoke about the recalculation during the briefing.
“Kyivteploenergo has reduced the payment for heat supply services provided in January 2026 for 99% of its consumers. We are talking about more than 1 million apartments. Automatic recalculation was carried out in accordance with the algorithm approved by Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 683, which entered into force in May 2026. It takes into account periods of lack of service and the discrepancy of the coolant with quality parameters. General discount for consumers amounted to more than UAH 720 million, or an average of almost 40%,” the report says.
Lopatin recalled that in February no charges were made for centralized heating and the supply of thermal energy for January 2026. The reason was large-scale attacks on critical infrastructure facilities in Kyiv, as a result of which heating networks and equipment were damaged. Therefore, there was a need to create a legal mechanism for automatic individual recalculation.
“In May, the Cabinet of Ministers, by resolution No. 683, approved an algorithm for automatic recalculation of heating costs for heat supply enterprises using the appropriate coefficients. We completed the charges for January immediately after the adoption of the resolution, during the inter-heating period, when the payment burden is lower,” he explained.
As noted in the Kyiv City State Administration, the recalculation was carried out for all consumers in whose homes there was a temporary lack of heating or its parameters did not meet regulatory requirements.
“The duration of periods of lack of heat supply and deterioration in quality was individual for each house. It depended on many factors: the source of heat supply, the possibility of prompt switching, emergency power outages, the degree of energy efficiency of the house. For comparison: in conditions of stable normal operation of heat sources, the total amount of charges in the capital would have been more than 1.85 billion UAH. The actual amount of charges for heating in January was 1.13 billion UAH. Residents of Kiev received a total discount of 720 million UAH, that is, the cost of the service has decreased by 40%,” emphasized Konstantin Lopatin.
