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On Oct. 15, heating plants across Serbia commissioned almost all of their district heating systems, except in Sabac and Bajina Basta, where the start of the heating season was put off due to high outside temperatures, Dejan Stojanovic, head of the Association of Heating Plants, has said.
Heating supply could be disrupted in warm weather, Stojanovic told BETA, explaining that plants had been set to automatically discontinue heating at the outside temperatures of 14 to 15 degrees Celsius. He added that heating plants were technically fit for the heating season, but warned that problems could be also caused by installations within homes.
Serbia has 60 district heating plants supplying some 660,000 households, with 15 of them raising their prices by up to 30 percent for this season. Heating plants set prices in consultations with their respective local self-governments.
Homes in Belgrade are heated from 6 am to 10 pm on business days, and from 7 am to 10 pm on weekdays, and longer at very low outside temperatures. Heating is supplied 24/7 on New Year’s Eve, Orthodox Christmas (Jan. 7) and Orthodox (Serbian) New Year’s Eve (Jan. 13), except at extremely favorable outside conditions.
Heating is discontinued when the outside temperature is above 15 degrees Celsius for longer than two hours, and is resumed when it is 12 degrees or lower. In the period from April 16, when the heating season officially ends, until May 3, homes in Belgrade are heated on the days when the mean daily temperature is 12 degrees Celsius.
A similar schedule is applied by other district heating plants across Serbia.
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