The annual price for heat from Wien Energie is determined from your usage in the prior July-June period.I got my year-end bill in November with the new rate which started 01 January.My my monthly payments for heat have gone up 150%.  For the next year, I will be paying 250 € a month to keep one room barely warm from late November till mid-March.I close off the entire apartment except for the bedroom where I run one radiator (of two in the bedroom; there are seven in the apartment) with the dial never set higher than 3 (out of 8).I am wearing an athletic t-shirt, a long-sleeve t-shirt, a regular t-shirt, a sweatshirt, a thermal shirt, a hoodie (often with the hood up), and sometimes a scarf and baseball cap; regular boxer/briefs, long thermal skiing underwear, heavy sweatpants, and thick wool socks.Everything electric is unplugged. I run the refrigerator only a few hours a week. One lamp. I turn on the hot water heater only when I need it (almost never).Biggest drain: modem/computer.Tomatoes, for example, went in six months from 1,49 € per Kilo to 2,79 €.  I cutback on all sorts of things, like my daily “shot” of fresh-pressed ginger, apple, and lemon juice (went from 0,99 € to 1,29€).But in all … it could be worse! I can afford my healthy vegan diet (a great lentil curry with lots of fresh vegetables tonight), and still get to the opera and ballet, although it’s now back to standing room for 5 €. And when I go I wear my Ukraine flag pin on my lapel.

The annual price for heat from Wien Energie is determined from your usage in the prior July-June period.I got my year-end bill in November with the new rate which started 01 January.My my monthly payments for heat have gone up 150%.  For the next year, I will be paying 250 € a month to keep one room barely warm from late November till mid-March.I close off the entire apartment except for the bedroom where I run one radiator (of two in the bedroom; there are seven in the apartment) with the dial never set higher than 3 (out of 8).I am wearing an athletic t-shirt, a long-sleeve t-shirt, a regular t-shirt, a sweatshirt, a thermal shirt, a hoodie (often with the hood up), and sometimes a scarf and baseball cap; regular boxer/briefs, long thermal skiing underwear, heavy sweatpants, and thick wool socks.Everything electric is unplugged. I run the refrigerator only a few hours a week. One lamp. I turn on the hot water heater only when I need it (almost never).Biggest drain: modem/computer.Tomatoes, for example, went in six months from 1,49 € per Kilo to 2,79 €.  I cutback on all sorts of things, like my daily “shot” of fresh-pressed ginger, apple, and lemon juice (went from 0,99 € to 1,29€).But in all … it could be worse! I can afford my healthy vegan diet (a great lentil curry with lots of fresh vegetables tonight), and still get to the opera and ballet, although it’s now back to standing room for 5 €. And when I go I wear my Ukraine flag pin on my lapel.

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