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Energy crisis: escalators, trolleybuses and trams in Budapest may stop working
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Rising energy prices have put the Municipality of Budapest in an extremely difficult situation. The council does not yet know for how long it will be able to cover the electricity consumption of the Budapest Transport Company’s (BKV) vehicles.
In response to the explosion in energy prices, at the end of August, the Council of Representatives adopted an energy package to increase efficiency and save money. However, this does not yet answer the most pressing question of BKV: what will provide electricity for trams next year?
No valid offers to BKV
The legislation obliges all municipalities and municipal-owned companies to carry out energy procurement. As long as energy prices were low, this system worked well, with electricity trading companies competing in tenders with downward electronic bids for the large and reliable BKV, Index writes.
However, for months BKV has not yet received a valid offer from the electricity trading companies eligible to bid. In the absence of such a bid, the transport company’s so-called traction power tender is still running.
“BKV has an electricity contract until 31 December, so there is still time to find solutions,” Ambrus Kiss, the Deputy Mayor General, calms our worries.
” When the Yoke is Broken,
the Burden is Removed.”
Hungary – YOU know – who your BURDEN is.
You “elected” again – your Burden – in April 2022.
@Appalled Where in your insult to the Hungarian voters is the connection to the article? ENLIGHTEN us how Orban is responsible for the rising energy prices.