Prices of electricity, gas, heat and water in Slovakia aren't the highest in the region, chair of Regulatory Office for Network Industries (URSO) Jozef Holjenčík told President Andrej Kiska during their meeting on Thursday. According to Holjenčík in the context of the V4 countries [Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland] our country has the lowest prices as the statistics deform this view because countries don't provide figures concerning the same data. The Slovak president was interested in problems that have appeared recently, such as the inability to claim a state subsidy for renewable resources due to administrative obstacles. He was also interested in price creation, in the composition of the end price for energy for the consumer. Jozef Holjenčík claimed that prices are set in a way that ensures that everyone knows what they are actually paying for in the final cost of energy. In the Czech Republic, for example, end prices include only part of the subsidy for 'green' energy, and the entrepreneur receives the rest in a different way, via the state budget, for example. "The consumer thus pays for supporting 'green' energy via a different channel", added Holjenčík.
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