Narva now pays Estonia's most expensive district heat. Put the megawatt-hours from your bill in and see what the May 2026 change costs you a month and a year.
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From May 2026 Narva pays the most expensive district heat in Estonia: a ceiling price of €137.69 per megawatt-hour before VAT, approved by the Competition Authority on 2 April 2026. Gas is 90% of what it costs to make that heat, and there is no state help.
This page does the arithmetic nobody does: it takes the megawatt-hours off your own bill and shows what they cost before the change, after it, and over a year.
In effect
The new rate has been in effect since 1 May 2026.
Announced 2 April 2026.
per megawatt-hour of heat
| Who pays it | Now | From the change | Change |
|---|
| Everyone on the Narva city networkThe regulator approves one ceiling price for the whole Narva network — homes, housing associations and city buildings alike. Both figures exclude VAT, which is how they are published and approved. | €105.04 | €137.69 | +31.1% |
A megawatt-hour is 1,000 kWh. A flat in a Soviet-era block in Narva typically uses a few MWh in a cold month and a fraction of one in summer, when the heat is only making hot water — your own meter is the only figure that is actually yours.
the MWh figure on your monthly heat bill or your housing association's statement — every flat in Narva is on a remotely-read meter
+€65.30 a month
+€783.60 a year · +31.1%
Round figures at the Everyone on the Narva city network rate — a scale to find yourself on, not a claim about what anyone uses.
| Usage a month | Now | From the change | Difference a month | Difference a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.5 MWh | €52.52 | €68.85 | +€16.32 | +€195.90 |
| 1 MWh | €105.04 | €137.69 | +€32.65 | +€391.80 |
| 2 MWh | €210.08 | €275.38 | +€65.30 | +€783.60 |
| 3 MWh | €315.12 | €413.07 | +€97.95 | +€1,175.40 |
| 4 MWh | €420.16 | €550.76 | +€130.60 | +€1,567.20 |
| 5 MWh | €525.20 | €688.45 | +€163.25 | +€1,959.00 |
| 7 MWh | €735.28 | €963.83 | +€228.55 | +€2,742.60 |
| 10 MWh | €1,050.40 | €1,376.90 | +€326.50 | +€3,918.00 |
These are AS Narva Soojusvõrk's own stated reasons, reported as theirs.
VAT is on top of these numbers
Where the two prices come from
Cheaper heat is contracted for the end of 2028
What this page can and cannot tell you
AS Narva Soojusvõrk
Buys heat from Enefit Power and distributes it over 80 km of network to up to 60,000 people in Narva. Every customer has a remotely-read heat meter.
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