Kyiv restored two-thirds of its own generating capacities after enemy shelling, - Kyiv City State Administration

The capital has restored two-thirds of its own generating capacity after the rocket attacks and has not stopped working. In the process of restoring energy facilities in Kyiv, modern European technologies are used, and supplies of the necessary powerful equipment continue.

This was stated by the Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration Petro Pantelyeev during a meeting organized by the Project “Reforming the District Heating Sector in Ukraine (ReWarm)”.

He recalled that the capital’s energy facilities were subjected to more than a dozen attacks, as a result of which more than half of the generating capacity was disabled.

“Colossal work has been done, and now two thirds have been restored. What is important is that the most modern European technologies and equipment are used. As a result, the city’s energy facilities, which were built primarily during the Soviet period, are being modernized and becoming much more efficient,” the official noted.

Rehabilitation and modernization projects became part of the "Energy Recovery: Path to Distributed Cogeneration" concept.

“We plan to decentralize the electricity and heat production system by building small and medium-power thermal power plants. In addition, the city is developing a cluster of facility autonomy in conditions of a possible lack of electricity. Without this, quality preparation for winter is impossible. For example, all hospitals in the city are equipped with generators, more than a hundred boiler houses of the central heating system have generators, 175 pump rooms can also be quickly connected to autonomous power sources. We are now increasing the number of mobile boiler houses. It is within the framework of the Project “Reforming the district heating sector in Ukraine” that solar panels are being installed in medical institutions in Kyiv,” said the deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration.

Petro Pantelyeev also recalled that there are about 11 thousand high-rise buildings in Kyiv, a significant part of which have engineering equipment that depends on electricity.

“These are pumps for water supply systems, heating systems, elevators, etc. The city has developed and is implementing 4 programs as tools for housing communities to install backup power. This is a program for co-financing energy efficient measures 70/30, a program for co-financing repairs, a program for compensating funds for the purchase of alternative power and a program for providing preferential loans. To date, more than 1,000 housing communities have already taken part in such programs and carried out energy efficient measures,” said Deputy Chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration Petro Pantelyeev.