Bulgarian natural gas consumers saved almost 2.486 bln leva of their energy costs last year.

Industry reduced its costs by 2.402 bln leva, while the public and administrative sector saved 76.378 mln leva. Households managed to cut their gas bills by 6.511 mln leva.

Separate statistics for Overgas shows that its clients saved more than 237 mln leva in 2006.

Industrial consumers, who replaced fuel oil with natural gas, saved a total of 105 mln leva.

The public, administrative and commercial institutions, which preferred natural gas to gas oil, managed to reduce their costs by more than 101 mln leva.

Bulgarian households, who passed from gas oil and electricity for heating and cooking to natural gas, cut their bills by 31 mln leva.