The lower price of natural gas on the world exchange and the investments in the development of the ENGIE Group’s thermal power plants will be reflected in the price of heat for this year. Customers will thus pay less for the heat they consume while maintaining the same quality of energy supply.
The new modernized boiler house for burning wood chips Sever in Pezinok is already in trial operation. Termming, a member of the ENGIE Group, has already taken several measures in the past to modernise its heating system. Another of the planned investments was the reconstruction of the boiler house and the change of fuel to a renewable energy source – biomass.
On 1 September 2016, Termming, a.s., a member of the ENGIE Group, took over the thermal power plant in the village of Kanianka on a twenty-year lease. This is the 16th heat farm operated by the ENGIE Group in Slovakia.
Termming, a member of the ENGIE Group, will invest additional EUR 1.2 million in the modernisation of the heat management in Malacky. The aim of the new project is to install two high-efficiency cogeneration units for combined heat and power (CHP).
Last year Cofely invested more than EUR 1 750 thousand in the heat farms in Malacky, Senica and Vrakuni. The investments were related to the construction of cogeneration units and the installation of a gas boiler in Malacky, the replacement and installation of a new, more efficient gas boiler in the wood biomass boiler house in Senica and the installation of a new conveyor for the automatic transfer and dumping of ash in the wood biomass boiler house on Železničná Street in Vrakuni.
On 10 November 2015, at a special Old Town Council meeting, the councillors approved the extension of the lease agreement with Termming for a further 10 years. The subject of the lease are heat distribution and energy equipment.
Termming, a.s., a subsidiary of the Cofely Group, will provide heat production and supply to the inhabitants of Veľké Kapušiany from 1 January 2016. It will thus replace the existing producer and supplier of heat – MIBYT, s.r.o., Veľké Kapušany.
Since 1 July 2015, Cofely has been providing continuous servicing of heat transfer stations (OST) and the centralised heat supply system (CHS) in Leopoldov for Slovenské elektrárne.
Residents in towns where heat is supplied by COFELY Group companies will pay less for heat this year. In addition to a milder winter, the price of heat has also been affected by the lower price of natural gas and investments in the development and modernisation of the heating plants operated by the COFELY Group.
The company Tepelné hospodárstvo Moldava commissioned a biomass boiler house in Moldava nad Bodvou.