An official investigation has been launched at the Mykolaiv Central Heating Plant and they are looking for the person responsible for the disruption of the heating season

Dmytro Miroshnichenko

After the disruption of the heating season and statements from the Mykolayiv RMA about the need for personnel decisions, the CHP began an official investigation to find the culprits.

Dmytro Miroshnychenko, the director of Mykolaiv CHP, told about this in a comment to Nikvesti.

We will remind that the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration stated that, despite the declarations of readiness for the heating season, «Mykolaiv CHP» did not fulfill its promises. In OVA, the enterprise is required to make personnel decisions.

Commenting on statements from the RMA management, Dmytro Miroshnychenko said that the chief engineer, who is responsible for the preparation and conduct of the heating season, has been temporarily removed from his post. The head of the CHP noted that this does not mean that the chief engineer is to blame, everything will become clear after the completion of the official investigation, which will last about a month.

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— Valentyn Vasyliovych (Haidarzhy, — note) sharpened attention to personnel policy. What has been done? We have organized an official investigation. During the investigation of such mass accidents, chief engineer Serhii Rykov was suspended from his duties. I think we will finish the official investigation within a month. We need to analyze different materials. It's not just someone to talk to. We need to look at the records of the works performed, when and what was done, how much money was invested, how the financial plans were formed, who approved them and who submitted them... Serhii Rykov was suspended, but this does not mean that we have found a «scapegoat» and will unscrew his head and that's it. will be fine immediately. Here we need to understand the deep reasons for everything, said Dmytro Miroshnychenko.

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.

It was also reported that during the 2023/2024 heating season, water from the estuary is poured into Mykolaiv thermal power plant only in emergency cases. Thus, the networks of the enterprise are filled with salt water by 8%, while last year the systems were filled with estuarine water by 91%.

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.