The Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung reported that “the cost of heating in Austria will increase by 50% by the current year 2022”, noting that “the cost of district heating in Vienna will double from autumn. increase this year to include 100,000 families in the federal state of Styria. Price growth is expected to reach 65 percent.”

In this context, a representative of Kelag Energie & Wärme, the main energy supplier in the federal state of Carinthia, confirmed that “consumers will see a price 20-40 percent higher than in 2021 on payment documents.”

In turn, Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen noted that his country will “survive the winter” in the energy crisis in the European Union, but “may have to lower the temperature.” Earlier it was reported that Austrian industrial enterprises found themselves in a crisis situation due to a tenfold increase in gas prices after the ban on Russian fuel, which can only be overcome with the help of the state on a large scale.