Kim supports the decentralization of heating in Mykolaiv: «Then it will be more difficult for the enemy to disable the system»

After the failure of the heating season in Mykolaiv, the head of RMA Vitalii Kim spoke in favor   transition of Mykolaiv CHP subscribers to decentralized heating.

He expressed this opinion during a press conference on December 26, writes NikVesti.

Vitalii Kim supports the idea of moving away from centralized heating. He considers it appropriate to switch from CHP to boiler heating at the level of city microdistricts, following the example of KP Oblteploenerho. The head of the RMA noted that such an issue was discussed even before the full-scale invasion. The process is made impossible by the fact that PJSC Mykolaivska Teploelektrotsentral is a state-owned enterprise managed by JSC Naftohaz Ukraine, which belongs to the State Property Fund of Ukraine.

«Questions about energy independence were raised even before the full-scale invasion, about the possibility of transferring CHP networks to communal ownership in order to remove centralized heating and move to district-level boiler houses and then to individual ones. In order to have a safe network, and not a centralized one, as in Oblteploenerho, for example. It has 93 boiler rooms, and it is more difficult for the enemy to make them fail, because they are 93 points that work separately. This plan existed before the invasion, it stopped due to the transfer of CHP to the management of Naftohaz of Ukraine. I am in favor of this initiative, but now I am the owner of the Naftohaz thermal power plant,» said Vitalii Kim.

He emphasized that the city could build its own heat supply system. However, its construction may take more than one year.

«The city can build its own system separately, no one forbids it. But we understand that it is not possible to build it in a year, that is why the situation is now in this state,» emphasized the head of RMA.

What about the 2023-2024 heating season in Mykolaiv?

As a reminder, the 2023-24 heating season in Mykolaiv began on November 14. As of the evening of November 18, the Mykolaiv thermal power plant company connected only half of the total number of consumers in Mykolaiv to heat. At the same time, in September, the CHP reported that it was 92% ready for the start of the heating season.

As of the evening of November 20, dozens of apartment buildings remained without heating in Mykolaiv. In several districts of the city, repair works of heating networks continued. Then the first deputy of Mykolaiv city mayor Vitalii Lukov announced that they plan to connect all residential buildings of Mykolaiv to heat in a few days.

However, on the evening of November 21, there were still more than 400 apartment buildings in the city without heating.

The Mykolaiv thermal power plant said that delays in the supply of heat to multi-apartment buildings occurred due to large gusts on the main pipelines of the heating lines.

On November 30, the CHP reported that due to emergency works in three more areas of the city, residents will be left without heating again for some time. However, the company immediately announced the good news — according to forecasters, the weather conditions in Mykolaiv are expected to improve.

In addition, the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration stated that, despite statements about readiness for the heating season, Mykolaiv TPP did not fulfill its promises. In RMA, the enterprise is required to make personnel decisions.

On the other hand, the director of Mykolaiv CHP, Dmytro Myroshnychenko, expressed his satisfaction with the work of his team, regardless of the problems that arose with the start of the heating season.

Numerous gusts of CHP networks are connected, in particular, with the fact that last heating season the enterprise used salty water from the estuary, which accelerates the corrosion of already outdated pipes. In contrast to this, purified water from wells was poured into Mykolaivovoblteploenerho, as NikVesti wrote in the article «Winter is near: What will the heating season be like in Mykolaiv?». Thus, the start of both heating seasons began without disruptions and significant accidents in the houses served by the regional heat and power utility.