Heating the main area in the summer what. Are apartment heating services paid for in the summer, when there is actually no heating? Do I need to heat for heating in the summer

The cost of housing heating is one of the most significant components of the bills that we pay for housing and communal services. It is not surprising, therefore, that among the frequent questions that arise among consumers of public utilities, an important place is occupied by the procedure for charging fees for supplying heat to our homes. We decided to raise this topic again due to the loss of force of the Rules for the provision of public services to citizens, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of May 23, 2006 No. 307, and the adoption of a new document of June 29, 2016 No. 603 “On Amendments to Certain Acts of the Government of the Russian Federation on issues of providing public services. Starting from July 1, 2016, the procedure for calculating the payment for heating has been changed, so on the pages of the MG we will analyze where the specific figures in the “heating” column will come from in 2017.

Today, calculations for thermal energy can be carried out in one of two ways:

• only during the heating period
• evenly throughout the calendar year

The specific method is chosen by the Government of Moscow no more than once a year before October 1 of the current year and the decision is implemented only in the following year: from July 1 when switching to uniform payment throughout the year, or from the first day of the heating season when switching to payment, respectively, during the heating season.

For 2017, the City Government has maintained a uniform method of paying for heating in Moscow, excluding the Troitsky and Novomoskovsky districts. However, the same settlement procedure applies to TiNAO.

In 2017, residents of houses that are still not equipped with a common house heat energy meter will pay 1.5 times more than residents of those houses where such a meter is installed.

Let's consider four typical cases, according to which payment for heat supply to our houses is charged.

Case 1 The house is not equipped with a common house metering device (OPU), while there is no technical possibility of its installation. This mainly concerns the old housing stock. Here the calculation is carried out according to the following formula:

Case 2. The house is not equipped with a control room, but at the same time it is technically possible to install it (housing stock, where, for various reasons, a common house heat energy meter has not yet been installed). In this case, the calculation is carried out as follows:

As can be seen from the above formula, residents of houses that are still not equipped with a common house heat energy meter will pay 1.5 times more in 2017 than houses where such a meter is installed. In accordance with Federal Law No. 261-FZ "On Energy Supply and Energy Efficiency Improvement", common meters must be installed in all apartment buildings before July 1, 2012, then this period was extended, however, today even in Moscow all houses are equipped with them. A special multiplier should encourage homeowners to take steps to have such meters in their homes. However, for example, in the settlement of Sosenskoye, the PMU are placed in the old housing stock as part of a long-term target program at the expense of the local budget.

Case 3 The house has an operating control room, but not all rooms are equipped with individual heat meters (ITU). This case includes the vast majority of houses built after the enactment of the law "On Energy Saving", when the installation of common house meters became the responsibility of developers. In this example, the calculation is carried out according to the following formula:

Once a year, the payment for heating is adjusted based on actual consumption, according to the formula:

In this case, the management company during the year evenly accrues payment according to the standard or average actual consumption for the previous year, and after a year it recalculates based on the readings of the common house meter. At the same time, the recalculation can be either up or down, depending on how cold and long the heating season was, as well as on the economy of heat consumption by the owners, including in public places.

Case 4 The house is equipped with an operating control room and all the premises of the house are also equipped with an operating control room. This case mainly applies to new buildings with a horizontal distribution of the heating system, which allows you to install a heat meter separately for each apartment. The calculation will be carried out according to the following formula:

Heating payment adjustment based on actual consumption (once a year):

Separately, it should be noted that in order to apply the calculation scheme No. 4, all residential and non-residential premises in an apartment building must be equipped with meters. At the same time, all meters must be in good condition, undergo verification within the established time limits (1 time in 4 years), and must also be put into operation with the involvement of a management company. This situation makes it virtually impossible to pay for individual heat meters, since one non-working or non-verified device is enough for the calculation to be made according to scheme No. 3.

The government has decided to maintain a uniform payment for heat consumption in apartment buildings for 2017.

So, we have considered 4 typical cases of payment for thermal energy that owners of multi-apartment residential buildings face (multi-apartment buildings stand apart, where the common property includes their own boiler house and where the owners pay not for thermal energy, but, as a rule, for gas, which used to heat water). As you can see, according to the amendments to federal legislation, now the Moscow Government determines how Muscovites will pay for heating: evenly throughout the year or only during the heating period. So far, the decision has been made to keep the payment evenly over 12 months. It can be assumed that this is due to the desire to evenly distribute the burden on family budgets (primarily low-income citizens). If, say, the annual payment for heating is 12,000 rubles and this amount is distributed evenly throughout the year, then the monthly burden on the budget will be 1,000 rubles. If payment is made only during the heating period, which in our region is 5-6 months, then heating costs during this period increase by 2 times, although they disappear completely in the rest of the year.

Regulations:

1. In accordance with paragraph 42.1 of the Rules for the provision of utility services to owners and users of premises in apartment buildings and residential buildings (approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 05/06/2011 N 354 (as amended on 06/29/2016) "On the provision of utility services to owners and users of premises in apartment buildings and residential buildings).

2. Clause 2 of Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of June 29, 2016 N 603 “On Amendments to Certain Acts of the Government of the Russian Federation on the Provision of Public Services”.

3. Decree of the Government of Moscow of 29.09.2016 N 629-PP "On maintaining a uniform procedure for making payments for utility services for heating in the city of Moscow and amending the Decree of the Government of Moscow of January 11, 1994 N 41".

4. Clause 3 of Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of June 29, 2016 N 603 “On Amendments to Certain Acts of the Government of the Russian Federation on the Provision of Public Services”.

5. Clause 2(1), Appendix 2 of Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 05/06/2011 N 354 (as amended on 06/29/2016) "On the provision of utility services to owners and users of premises in apartment buildings and residential buildings" (together with the "Rules for the provision of utility services to owners and users of premises in apartment buildings and residential buildings”).

6. Clause 2(2), Appendix 2 of Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 05/06/2011 N 354 (as amended on 06/29/2016) "On the provision of utility services to owners and users of premises in apartment buildings and residential buildings" (together with the "Rules for the provision of utility services to owners and users of premises in apartment buildings and residential buildings”).

7. Clause 3(2), Appendix 2 of Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 05/06/2011 N 354 (as amended on 06/29/2016) "On the provision of utility services to owners and users of premises in apartment buildings and residential buildings" (together with the "Rules for the provision of utility services to owners and users of premises in apartment buildings and residential buildings”).

8. Clause 3(3), Appendix 2 of Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 05/06/2011 N 354 (as amended on 06/29/2016) "On the provision of utility services to owners and users of premises in apartment buildings and residential buildings" (together with the "Rules for the provision of utility services to owners and users of premises in apartment buildings and residential buildings”).

Many Russians probably wondered: why do we pay for heating not only in winter, but also in summer, when heat is not supplied to the batteries? In fact, everything is quite simple, and the logic here, in principle, should be clear. For many families, paying for this particular service can hit the budget quite seriously, and therefore it is easier to break the total amount into all 12 months, since in the end their amount will decrease.

Let's look at a simple example, where the figures for the cost of housing and communal services are conditional - just for a better understanding of the situation. For example, for a year you need to pay 72 thousand rubles for heating. You can break this down into:

• 9 payments - 8 thousand rubles each;
• 12 payments - 6 rubles each.

As you can see, the monthly payment in the second case is reduced by 2 thousand rubles, but the payment period is extended by 3 months. I would like to emphasize once again that the figures are conditional, since the main thing here is to explain the expediency of this type of payment. It's like buying some kind of consumer electronics on credit - in the presence of an offer with a zero rate, many prefer to pay the entire amount not immediately, but systematically, in equal installments. Thus, we pay gradually, relatively small amounts. As a result, there is no need to “bleed” the family budget for several tens of thousands of rubles at once, and the necessary thing is acquired.

Similarly, with heating - instead of paying rather serious amounts, but only during the heating season, consumers are invited to split the payment over all 12 months. Therefore, the point here is not whether heat is supplied to the batteries in summer or not. So, for example, residents of the capital pay for heat. At the government level, it was decided to divide the annual tariff rate for Muscovites into 12 equal parts. However, there is also one point that consumers do not quite like. The thing is that the amount of payment is calculated from the standards calculated for the most severe winter. In other words, the real temperature regime is not taken into account, and we pay, as they say, in full.

Naturally, when the winter was warm, the amount of consumed thermal energy was reduced, however, payments were sent to citizens in accordance with current standards. By the way, here it is worth considering that the residents of Moscow are still lucky here, since about 25 percent of the costs are covered by the city government. Residents of other settlements are forced to pay for all 100 percent of the heat energy they consume.

In the 2016/2017 season, the calculation of the subscription fee in a number of regions will change.

However, this year the situation will be somewhat different. In some regions of the country, the subscription fee will be calculated differently. Citizens will only pay for the amount of thermal energy they actually consumed at the end of the previous month. On the one hand, such a step may be inconvenient for the population, since many are used to splitting the entire amount over 12 months, while now the numbers in their payments are guaranteed to grow. But at the same time, one should not forget that with norms that take into account the most stringent temperature regime, and not the real one, a wide field appears for all sorts of illegal schemes. As a result, the population is forced to pay for services out of its own pocket, which, in fact, it did not consume. Naturally, this situation causes some dissatisfaction. People may well be outraged, rightly asking why we pay for services that we do not actually consume.

The authorities of Berdsk appealed to the governor of the Novosibirsk region with a request to allow residents of the city not to pay for heat in the summer

It is worth noting that in Russia, in fact, there is no consensus on which of the two options is better. Someone likes to pay for heating all year round, including in summer, but with smaller bills. However, there are many supporters of the second option. For example, at the end of June, the Berdsk authorities announced their intention to contact Vladimir Gorodetsky, who holds the post of governor of the Novosibirsk region. They asked the head of the region to allow charging a monthly fee for heating only at the time of the heating season, abolishing the need to charge it in the summer.

This desire of the local authorities is connected with the decision of the tariff department. There, a decision was made on the expediency of switching to a scheme in which the population would pay for the consumed heat energy throughout the year. The corresponding resolution was signed by Vladimir Gorodetsky in mid-July 2016. According to the document, even residents of those houses in which meters are installed will pay for heating all year round.

Regional officials explain their decision as follows. In their opinion, paying 6-7 thousand rubles for heat in autumn, winter and spring, and not paying anything in the summer, will be quite expensive for many residents. In this regard, officials considered it inappropriate to leave three months of the warmest time of the year as "unloading" months.

It should be noted that the consumers themselves were generally deprived of the right to vote. Even if the owners of apartments in a high-rise building voted to maintain the old 1/9 system, this would not change anything. In any case, they would have to pay for the consumed tempo energy all year round. Representatives of the state housing inspectorate should control the situation.

In Berdsk, the innovation of the regional leadership was perceived ambiguously. According to some residents of the city, the transition to the 1/12 system will still not be able to significantly improve the financial well-being of ordinary people. In addition, people are perplexed: why, then, are meters of consumed heat energy installed in houses? However, the latter is easy to explain. Installing metering devices will allow people to pay for the amount of heat they actually consume.

The city administration believes that Berdsk residents should be left with the right to choose independently. That is, citizens themselves must decide how they will pay for heating - all year round or only during the heating season. It should be borne in mind here that almost 100 percent of houses in Berdsk are equipped with meters. In this regard, most residents of Berdsk prefer to pay for the consumed heat energy after the fact. Metering devices were not supplied only in 70 houses - due to the lack of technical capability. Taking into account all the factors listed above, as well as the opinion of ordinary people, city officials nevertheless compiled a reasoned appeal on this issue addressed to the governor and sent it to the head of the region.

Krasnoyarsk Territory switched to a new procedure for paying for heat energy from July 1

The situation is reversed in other regions of the country. For example, starting from July 1 of this year, the Krasnoyarsk Territory switched to the system of payment for consumed thermal energy only during the heating period. Irina Morgunova, who heads the department of economics and planning in the ZATO administration of Zheleznogorsk, explained to local journalists back in spring that heating payments would still be charged in June, while in July, August and September there would be no monthly fee for this utility service.

She also drew attention to one rather important point. Morgunova explained that, according to Decree No. 400 of the Government of the Russian Federation, the amount of compensation will be reduced first of all. Therefore, the decrease in payment in the summer may not be as significant as many expected. It all depends on one thing - what amount of compensation was from a particular consumer. A significant reduction will be seen only by those who paid utility bills, including heating, in full.

There are two payment options for heating services:

Payment for heating services at the rates established by the regulatory authority (rubles/sq.m.) is charged throughout the year in equal installments, since the rates are calculated based on the tariffs and heat consumption standards in force for the relevant period of time, taking into account the uneven distribution of heat energy consumption by months during the year, i.e. taking into account the fact that heating is turned off in summer;

Payment for heating services in the presence of a common house heat energy meter (rubles / Gcal) is charged during the heating period in accordance with the actual consumption of heat energy at tariffs established by the regulatory body.

The choice of payment option depends on the terms of the agreement between the managing and heat supply organizations, the decision of the board of the HOA, housing cooperative, the technical feasibility of installing a thermal energy meter for heating purposes and other factors.

See also other popular questions of the section "Heat supply" and answers to them

• Are the balcony and loggia included in the heated area? What about the bathroom and toilet?
• If there is a heat energy meter in a residential building, is there a recalculation for heating for the residents of the house? If yes, how?
• Does the resource supply organization have the right to stop supplying hot water to the homeowners association?
• The temperature in the apartment does not rise above 15 degrees. Especially often this happens when the outside temperature reaches the lowest possible temperatures. Where to apply in such cases and what is the procedure for eliminating the violation?

See also popular questions and answers to them in other sections

Gas supply

• At whose expense should apartment household gas meters in apartment buildings be verified?
• Who should bear the cost of maintaining internal gas pipelines and gas equipment that are part of the common property of the house if there are gas meters?
• Is it legal for a natural gas seller to introduce a temperature coefficient? How is it calculated?

Water supply

• Tariffs for water supply are high, while the quality of services does not match them. How to get a recalculation?
• In our house, by a majority of votes, a decision was made to carry out a major overhaul of the hot and cold water supply system. One of the owners made an expensive repair in the apartment, closed the risers of cold and hot water in the boxes in the bathroom, finished the boxes with ceramic tiles. At the same time, he agrees to the work being done, but on the condition that the management company compensate or restore the destroyed boxes and tiles. How valid is his claim?
• The faucet in the kitchen is out of order. Who is responsible for repairing or replacing it? What should be included in a multi-apartment residential building at the expense of the general tariff, and what directly at the expense of the tenant?

Electrification and power supply

• Is it possible to oblige the utility company to install an electric energy meter at the boundary of the balance sheet in an apartment building in order to pay for it with the energy supply organization, and the utility company itself should make settlements with the residents of the building for the electricity used?
• For an individual, it is possible to use a tariff schedule differentiated by zones of the day (two-tariff accounting). What are the time zones of this tariff and what is the effect of this tariff on weekends and holidays?
• At what rate do members of a horticultural partnership pay for consumed electricity?

Payment for housing and utilities, provision of benefits

• From what time and by what act were charges for excess area canceled?
• What services are paid per person, and what services per square meter?

Maintenance and repair of housing

• The landlord - an urban settlement - provided an apartment under a social tenancy agreement. Who is responsible for purchasing and installing an individual electricity meter (meter) in an apartment - the municipality or the tenant as a consumer of electricity?
• Do you want it not to blow from the cracks in your apartment, not to drip from the ceiling, and not to be afraid to enter the elevator? To make your house an elegant handsome man, in which it is both prestigious and comfortable to live?
• Why does the government want to give you money to fix your house?

Questions about the work of management companies

• What is the procedure for the management company to charge fees for the consumption of utility resources calculated according to common house meters. What to do if the management company exposes unreasonable amounts?