“The government has prepared two approaches to the heating season – “standard” and “crisis”. They warned that Ukraine is in for “one of the hardest winters since its independence.” Deputy Minister of Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine Timur Tkachenko said this at a briefing. Currently, all regions are ready for the heating season, 82% of boiler houses have been put into operation. Currently, 70% of residential buildings, 82% of cultural facilities, 84% of preschool education institutions, 82% of educational institutions are heated”, — write on: ua.news
The government has prepared two approaches to the heating season – “standard” and “crisis”. They warned that Ukraine is in for “one of the hardest winters since its independence.”
Deputy Minister of Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine Timur Tkachenko said this at a briefing.
Currently, all regions are ready for the heating season, 82% of boiler houses have been put into operation. Currently, 70% of residential buildings, 82% of cultural facilities, 84% of preschool education institutions, 82% of educational institutions, and 79% of medical institutions are heated.
“We have two approaches to preparing for the heating season – the standard one, which we conduct every year, and the crisis one, which we have prepared in case of attacks on critical infrastructure. Each community, each region should have a specific algorithm of actions in case of energy damage and in case of emergency situations. This concerns the preparation of alternative solutions,” said Tkachenko.
In addition, there is already a project of regional energy independence passports, in which the need for own generation is determined for each settlement — what generation should be, what need is already covered and how much it still needs to be increased.
Thus, the cities of Kharkiv, Ladyzhyn, Burshtyn, Ukrainka, Dobrotvir, Shostka, etc., have the highest priority for setting up backup power supply systems. In addition, special attention is paid to the front-line communities of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa regions.
Deputy Minister of Energy Mykola Kolisny added that this year the largest repair campaign was carried out, and the construction of backup power sources was also underway.
Ukraine agreed to increase the import of electricity from EU countries from the current 1.7 to 2.1 GW. Also, Ukraine will additionally have the possibility of guaranteed 250 MW of transfer capacity from the EU in emergency aid mode.
Kolisny noted that the government has adopted a number of decisions designed to attract and use these capacities on a commercial basis.
“Accordingly, we urge businesses to use imported power for their own needs. The government’s decision allows to purchase up to 80% for own needs – shutdown schedules do not apply to such enterprises,” he said.
The government official added that a similar step was taken in the construction of separate generation plants for their own needs.
From December 1, Ukraine will be able to import up to 2.1 GW of electricity from EU countries, which exceeds the previous capacity of 1.7 GW.
Earlier we wrote that NEC Ukrenergo began receiving large transformers within the framework of the RePower project from the World Bank.
We will also remind you that, according to the forecasts of the International Monetary Fund, a shortage of electricity at the level of 3-4 GW is expected in winter. The risks of its increase prevail, as missile attacks continue.
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