BL:Romania's industrial consumers will pay 10% more for natural gas
The price of natural gas paid by Romanian households and thermal power producers will remain unchanged until July 1, 2012, but industrial consumers will pay 10% more starting July 1, 2011, Friday said energy regulator ANRE.The regulated price of gas "grows buy some 10% on average for non-household consumers, except for thermal power producers (…) starting July 1, 2011," according to an ANRE decision.
Authorities based their decision on the increase of imported gas pricesto $460 from $290 per thousand cubic meters and the changes in the gas mix used to calculate the unit cost for gas, or CUG.