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   },
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 "notes": [
  "A national average heat tariff is not what any household pays: heat is sold per provider and per network area, and the approved prices differ several-fold.",
  "Headline figures are VAT-inclusive on every card. Latvia's source series already includes the reduced 12%% household heat rate (PVN likums 42. pants); Estonia's source is ex-VAT and 24%% is added once. Both bases are shown side by side.",
  "Latvia: 63 companies are registered to sell heat to end users, each with its own approved tariff — one national average stands for all of them.",
  "Latvia: 199 network areas run by 60 companies, from 60.76 to 162.77 EUR/MWh excluding VAT (2.68x between the cheapest and the dearest). The national average on the card is one number for all of them.",
  "Latvia: the tariff differs inside a single company too. Valmieras ūdens SIA charges 75.93 EUR/MWh in Rūjiena and 162.77 in apdzīvota vieta „Penči” Burtnieku pagastā, Valmieras novadā — 2.14x, same supplier. A figure keyed on the company alone is wrong for those customers.",
  "Latvia: 5 of the 199 rows in the regulator's map do not state whether the figure is with or without VAT. Every other row says 'bez PVN', and these sit in the same range, so they are treated as excluding VAT — but they are flagged rather than assumed silently.",
  "Latvia: 68 tariff decisions are PDFs hosted on the regulator's own site, which does not complete a TLS connection from either network we tried. Those rows carry their approved tariff but their basis is marked unchecked, not assumed fixed.",
  "Latvia's per-area history was recovered from the Internet Archive: 28 dated versions of the regulator's map, the oldest 2020-01-01. The map is revised irregularly and there are real gaps; the gaps are listed and nothing between them is filled in.",
  "Estonia's register history was recovered from the Internet Archive: 13 dated copies of the regulator's own price list, 2020-09-01 to 2023-11-20, the same table and the same median as today's reading. Between 2023-11-20 and our first own reading there is a real gap; nothing in it is filled in, and each point carries the VAT rate of its own date.",
  "Estonia has two longer annual series, and neither is a household price: Statistics Estonia's average cost of heat paid by enterprises (1999-2025), and the regulator's mean approved cap for the ten largest network areas (2005-2023). Both are excluding VAT and both are shown as what they are, beside the register median, not joined to it.",
  "Estonia's figure is an approved ceiling, not a price. The District Heating Act allows heat to be sold below the approved maximum, and utilities do: Utilitas sold at 83.18 EUR/MWh in Rapla against an 87.51 cap, Gren at 62.41 in Tartu against 64.69. Narva sells at its cap and says so. Where a company publishes its own selling price, that is the figure to prefer.",
  "Estonia, tested against one supplier that publishes both figures: in 2026-08 the price Utilitas charged equalled the approved ceiling exactly in every one of its network areas except Rapla. So 'a ceiling is not a bill' is true of the law, and for most of these areas the ceiling is the bill. Utilitas is 4.8% of the register's areas, not Estonia.",
  "Estonia: 3 Utilitas area(s) already carry an approved ceiling that starts later — it is not this month's figure and is not on any card.",
  "Estonia, second source: Statistics Estonia says enterprises paid 74.89 EUR/MWh on average in 2025, while the regulator's register median ceiling on 2026-10-15 is 82.32 — both excluding VAT, but one is money paid over a whole year and the other is the highest price allowed on one day, so the -9.03% gap is not a price change.",
  "Estonia: the approved ceilings are not all of the same age — 90 were decided within the last year, 34 are one to two years old, and 5 are more than five. The cheapest of them, Karksi-Nuia võrgupiirkond at 54.43 EUR/MWh, rests on a decision from 2011-08-02, so the low end of the range is not a current figure.",
  "Estonia: the median describes rural Estonia rather than where people live. SW Energia OÜ alone runs 29.8% of the network areas and N.R. Energy OÜ another 11.3%, while four of the five largest areas sit below the median. The regulator's file carries no volumes, so a population- or consumption-weighted average cannot be derived from it, and this median should not be read as the typical Estonian bill.",
  "Estonia: 168 network areas, from 54.43 to 137.69 EUR/MWh excluding VAT (2.53x between the cheapest and the dearest). The median, not the mean, is on the card.",
  "Estonia: 29 network areas have a separately approved new ceiling that the register has not yet moved into the current column. The file gives the date each price was decided, but not the date any of them starts to apply. The law requires a month's notice and the utilities publish it themselves — Utilitas gave 88.27 in Rapla from 1 October, Gren 65.39 in Tartu from the same date — but a date we would have to compute is not a date we publish, so these figures stay out of the headline.",
  "Lithuania has no single national district-heating price we can use. The regulator's site answers 403 behind bot protection that we do not work around; the open-data portal's three heating datasets are one-municipality, written as prose inside the CSV, and newest from 2021; and the statistics series is rounded to two decimals, giving four distinct values across fourteen months. Lithuania is therefore no_data, and no Latvian or Estonian number is copied into it.",
  "Lithuania: one supplier is read. AB Kauno energija publishes its own regulated monthly price back to 2012-01, with and without VAT; in 2026-10 it charged 87.60 EUR/MWh including VAT. That is Kaunas, not Lithuania, and it is not put on the card as a national figure.",
  "Lithuania has a price history after all, and Vilnius and Klaipeda are in it. The heat suppliers' own association published a monthly table of every supplier's approved price; across 140 months to 2023-10 the middle supplier charged 87.40 EUR/MWh including VAT, 49 suppliers in the last month. It is a compilation of the regulator's decisions, not an independent measurement, it counts Vilnius the same as the smallest town, and it stops at 2023-10 — 36 months ago. So Lithuania still has no figure on the card.",
  "Even once those tariffs are read, Lithuania will get a range and not a national average. Vilnius and Klaipeda, the two largest cities and historically among the cheapest, are both out of reach: the Vilnius utility refuses connections on either port from three separate networks, and the Klaipeda one asks us not to crawl it. An average of what remains would be provincial Lithuania wearing a national label, and it would sit too high precisely because the cheap cities are the missing ones.",
  "A commercial Lithuanian tariff aggregator does publish a national figure at usable precision, but it is unlicensed, states no method, and takes its own data from the same protected regulator. An unverifiable number is not better than an empty panel, so it is left out.",
  "Lithuania's reduced 9% VAT on heating was abolished on 1 January 2026; December consumption billed in January was still charged at 9%, January bills at 21%. The same change applies to firewood and wood fuel.",
  "Latvia's heat series runs back to January 2005, before the euro. The statistics office restated the earlier values from lats at the fixed rate; the changeover on 1 January 2014 is marked on the chart as a join, and the step there is not a price change.",
  "The heat price index for all three countries runs monthly from 1996-01. It is an index with 2015 = 100, not a price, and for Lithuania it is the only heat series here.",
  "Month-on-month change is named with its window. Heat is seasonal: a summer tariff and a winter tariff are not the same thing, so the season-to-season figure (October to April) is the comparable one.",
  "source ee_ka_review_2025 did not load this run (RuntimeError); stored values keep their own older dates",
  "source ee_utilitas did not load this run (RuntimeError); stored values keep their own older dates"
 ]
}