{"id":510867,"date":"2026-01-19T19:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=510867"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:12:31","slug":"after-lukashenka-remark-energy-ministry-to-lower-water-temperature-in-pipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/after-lukashenka-remark-energy-ministry-to-lower-water-temperature-in-pipes","title":{"rendered":"After Lukashenka Remark, Energy Ministry to Lower Water Temperature in Pipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Ministry of Energy has taken measures to limit the operating modes of heat supply systems during periods of severe frost. The ministry took this step after a remark by <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b>, who said that a temperature of +20\u00b0C is sufficient for apartments.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAdditionally, the Energy Ministry, on the President\u2019s instruction, has taken measures to limit the operating modes of heat supply systems during periods of severe frost in order to ensure a safety margin and prevent such situations in the future,\u201d<\/i> Energy Minister <b>Dzianis Maroz<\/b> said, commenting on a rupture of a heating main in Minsk.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, Lukashenka said that apartment temperatures should not reach +25\u00b0C in winter.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cBut if the water in the pipes had not been 100 or 90 degrees and the pressure had been lower, but 80, with lower pressure. Well, it would have been a bit cooler in the room. Not 25, as we and you are used to, but 20 degrees is enough in a home. I don\u2019t know about you, but for me it\u2019s cool both here and at home, and that\u2019s great,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Energy has taken measures to limit the operating modes of heat supply systems during periods of severe frost. The ministry took this step after a remark by Alyaksandr Lukashenka, who said that a temperature of +20\u00b0C is sufficient for apartments. \u201cAdditionally, the Energy Ministry, on the President\u2019s instruction, has taken measures to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":510866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/696f1cd3abd8e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"After Lukashenka Remark, Energy Ministry to Lower Water Temperature in Pipes"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}