The tariff draft comes from the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services and was written, Spot reported on 13 October, for Veolia Energy Tashkent, the operator of the capital’s heat networks. Central heating in Tashkent goes from 241.44 to 314 soums per square metre of heated floor a day, the unit Uzbekistan bills heating in, and metered hot water from 8,928.67 to 11,607 soums a cubic metre, both rises of about 30%, while the household tariff for heat energy rises from 156,643 to 203,636 soums a gigacalorie including VAT.
Hot water for a flat without a meter falls from 52,303 to 45,330 soums a month per person, and for residents of dormitories with shared showers from 38,908 to 33,720. The draft gives no reason for the two reductions.
Kun.uz’s reading of the same draft on 14 October adds the national frame, and 2027 is absent from it: from 1 November 2026 heating and hot-water tariffs across the country are indexed by about 30% on average, and hot-water tariffs for the whole republic are set by a government resolution for the first time. Tariffs for companies are to be set from the same date by the interdepartmental tariff commission under the cabinet.
Hot water for a flat without a meter falls from 52,303 to 45,330 soums a month per person, and for residents of dormitories with shared showers from 38,908 to 33,720.
The draft also writes the next steps into the calendar. From 2028 household heating tariffs are indexed once a year, on 1 May, by the previous year’s inflation and capped at 10%, and the document recalls a presidential resolution of 11 March 2025 that provides for bringing the reduced household heating tariffs to cost by 2030.
Tashkent’s last rise was in November 2025, when the hokim, Shavkat Umurzakov, approved a 15% increase to 139,860 soums a gigacalorie on Veolia’s proposal, Spot recalled. The figure the new draft starts from, 156,643 soums, is given with VAT, and 139,860 with 12% VAT added is 156,643, by CAW’s arithmetic.
The second draft, a presidential decree on social support during the “phased transition of prices for fuel and energy resources to market principles”, is the compensation. In November 2026 a one-off payment of 1 million soums, about $84 at the central bank’s rate of 14 October, goes to families in the Social Registry and to families outside it that meet its criteria by the judgment of the “mahalla seven”, the neighbourhood committee of seven officials, and the agencies’ data, with the money to reach social or bank cards by 30 November.
The income ceiling is twice the minimum consumer expenditure per head, a benchmark whose current figure neither draft prints, and three times it in Tashkent for flats with central heating. Each mahalla draws up its additional list by 1 November, capped at half the number of registry families in its district, with families that lost a breadwinner, families with disabled members or children, families with members working abroad and flats without gas or central heating taken first.
The same decree lifts the income threshold for electricity and gas compensation from 1.5 to 2 times the minimum consumer expenditure, and for coal aid from one to two times. Electricity and gas compensation runs to 1 April 2028 and coal aid to 1 January 2029. In 2026 the money comes from the national budget through the National Agency for Social Protection, and from 2027 it is written into the budget’s own parameters.
Liquefied gas gets a fixed price and a subsidy in one move. The draft sets LPG at 5,000 soums a kilogram and pays needy families 3,000 soums for every kilogram up to 20 a month, so a family at the cap pays 2,000 soums a kilogram for its first 20 kilograms, by CAW’s arithmetic. In districts without gas the winter base norm for electricity rises from 200 to 350 kWh.
The heat supplier is restructured alongside the price. Within a month the share of independent members on the board of Issiqlikta’minoti, the state holding of the heat-supply enterprises, is to reach 75%, and by the end of 2026 foreign specialists are to be hired as deputy chairman for finance and as technical adviser to the chairman.
By 1 April 2027 the holding’s management gets key performance indicators, among them a 25% cut in network losses for 2027 against a baseline the draft does not print, and the 2026 accounts are to be prepared under international standards. A programme to cut the cost of heat production by up to 15% is due within a month, a modernisation programme on a full technical audit by the end of 2027, and a heat-supply strategy to 2030 by 1 May 2027.
One clause cuts the other way: heat-supply enterprises, those under public-private partnership included, must revise within two months the consumption norms per square metre on which the tariffs are calculated, under the urban-planning rules. Where a revised norm comes down, the approved household tariff on that territory comes down with it, and where it rises, the tariff stands until the next revision.
Public comment on both drafts closes on 28 October, four days before the new tariffs take effect.