Although consumption of electricity and natural gas has increased in the last few days, supply is regular, except with power in some parts of the country where heavy snow has damaged power lines or the distribution grid.
The HEP power company expects today's electricity consumption to be at the level recorded last Friday (61,700 megawatt hours), which is about 15 per cent more than the average daily consumption in mid-January.
HEP said the distribution system was functioning normally, other than in areas hit by heavy snow.
About 2,800 consumers on the eastern part of the southern island of Brac are currently without electricity and HEP teams are repairing the local power lines.
HEP teams are also repairing a power line near Metkovic. Because of difficult terrain, the residents of Komin and Rogotin near Ploce and in several bays on the Peljesac peninsula in southern Croatia are also without power.
Power supply has also been disrupted in the coastal area below Mount Velebit and in the central region of Lika. Over the weekend, especially on Sunday, when the wind abated a little, HEP teams managed to restore power to 2,500 of 3,000 consumers who had recently been without it. However, the weather deteriorated during the night and the repaired as well as other power lines are down again.
The oil and gas company INA said daily gas consumption was about 50 per cent higher than in mid-January, but added that there was enough gas and there was no need for concern about supply.
In mid-January, the average daily gas consumption was about 10 million cubic metres, as against about 15 million in the past few days.
The biggest gas distributor, in Zagreb, which services about 270,000 consumers, reported daily consumption of about 1.5 million cubic metres in early and mid-January and about 4.2 million over the weekend.
Snow and low temperatures continue to cause problems throughout the country, especially in the south and in the east, where school classes have been cancelled.
Three thousand people in villages near Imotski are cut off because of snowdrifts several metres high, Split County prefect Ante Sanader said, adding that additional machines were required to break through them and reach the villages.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, hospitals reported three deaths directly or indirectly related to the heavy snowfall and low temperatures - an elderly woman in Banja Luka, an 84-year-old man in Sarajevo, and a Slovenian man aged 24, found dead on Mount Jahorina near Sarajevo.
Heavy snow started falling again throughout the country in the afternoon, causing traffic disruptions. Conditions remain worst in the east of the country, where dozens of villages have been cut off for three days.
