As part of the implementation of the energy sustainability plan, distributed cogeneration facilities with a total capacity of 65 MW have already been built in Kyiv, according to Petro Panteleev, acting first deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration.
“We have already built cogeneration plants with a capacity of 65 MW and diesel power plants with a capacity of over 16 MW,” he said at a press briefing on Monday dedicated to the progress of the Kyiv City Resilience Plan.
The level of readiness for infrastructure restoration, Panteleev added, has already reached 60%. In addition, the city is working to prepare its housing stock for the heating season.
According to the city official, Kyiv has allocated 800 million hryvnias over the course of the year for the repair and modernization of electrical switchboards. Work is planned this year at 742 facilities; so far, 20% of the plan has been completed.
As Panteleev noted, energy efficiency measures have already been implemented in over 2,000 residential buildings through municipal and state programs.
It was previously reported that the capital’s Resilience Plan allocates 37 billion hryvnias for the restoration and construction of facilities and infrastructure.
The government has set a goal for all regions to develop cogeneration to the maximum extent possible, primarily to ensure critical infrastructure, as well as to take measures to ensure energy autonomy in island mode, said Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko.
“Each region needs to have such detailed energy development plans and implement them. Everything that can be restored must be restored. Everything that can be protected must be protected, at least with a second level of protection,” Sviridenko said at a meeting with journalists in Kyiv on Friday.
She stressed that this winter is the harshest in many years and one of the most difficult in four years of full-scale invasion.
According to her, in the context of unprecedented shelling by Russia, Ukraine needs much larger stocks of equipment and air defense systems.
“Our air defense is working at full capacity. Energy companies are also working beyond their capabilities. Without the help of our partners in terms of equipment and air defense missiles, we will not be able to defend ourselves as effectively as in previous years,” the prime minister said.
At the same time, she noted that the efforts of the government and local authorities to decentralize energy supply are already yielding results.
