Sienkevych said that Mykolaiv CHP will take into account last year's mistakes at the start of the heating season: «But we will check them»

Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych, photo: NikVesti

Mykolaiv City Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych said that at the start of the heating season in 2024, Mykolaiv CHP will take into account all last year's mistakes.

The mayor said this during a meeting with journalists on Thursday, July 11, NikVesti reports.

According to the mayor, for the first time in recent years, Mykolaiv authorities managed to build a constructive dialogue with the management of the CHP. Currently, the city is helping the company with equipment to prepare for winter.

In addition, Oleksandr Sienkevych promised that this year the city will directly check the operation and readiness of the CHP to supply heat to the homes of Mykolaiv residents.

«We have an understanding with the CHP and management. For the first time in recent years, we have an understanding with this organization. They don't just send us, we cooperate, try to help, give them pipes, help with equipment, they communicate with us. They will take into account errors as much as possible, and we will check that they take them into account. Because last year we trusted, but we could say we didn't check. Now we will also check them,» Oleksandr Sienkevych said.

We will remind, during the conference on the restoration of Ukraine in Berlin, Oleksandr Sienkovych reported to the chairman of the board of Naftogaz of Ukraine, Oleksii Chernyshov, how the city is preparing for the start of the heating season.

In addition, Oleksii Chernyshov himself, in a comment to NikVesti, promised to monitor that Mykolaiv CHP was ready for the heating season this year.

It was also reported earlier that in Mykolaiv they will not have time to build a new heating network on Pogranichnaya Street before the beginning of the 2024-2025 heating season due to a lack of funds.

Although the director of Mykolaiv CHP Dmytro Myroshnychenko assured that the workers will have time to complete the repair works of the existing network on Pohranychna.

How the Mykolaiv CHP failed the heating season in 2023

Excavation of Mykolaiv thermal power plant in the center of Mykolaiv, photo from the archive of NikVesti, September 2023.

The 2023-24 heating season in Mykolaiv began on November 14, but Mykolaiv CHP was able to provide heat to residents only at the beginning of December due to numerous accidents on heating networks. The mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sienkevych, believes that the problems with starting the heat will only get worse in the coming years.

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

As of the evening of November 18, 2023, Mykolaiv CHP connected only half of the total number of its 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.

Excavation of the CHP plant in the center of Mykolaiv, photo from the archive of NikVesti, November 2023

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. Mykolaiv CHPP 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.

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 «Mykolaivvoblteploenergo», 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.

At the same time, the Mykolaiv Thermal Power Plant reported that during the 2023/2024 heating season, water from the estuary will be poured in only in emergency cases. Thus, the company's networks are filled with salt water by 8%, while last year the systems were filled with estuarine water by 91%.

The section of Mariupolska Street where the CHP refuses to repair the asphalt, photo NikVesti, March 2024

For six months now, Mykolaiv CHPP has not been bringing Mariupolska (Moskovska) Street (from Tsentralnyi Avenue to Chkalova Street, where repair work was carried out on heating networks last fall. In Mykolaiv CHPP, they say that it makes no sense to asphalt the excavated sections of the road along Mariupolska Street at the moment, because after several a partial replacement of the heating line will be carried out there from Dunaieva Street to Sevastopolska Street.

We will remind you that the director of the Mykolaiv Thermal Power Plant (TPP) Dmytro Myroshnychenko submitted a declaration on property and income for 2023. During the year, the official earned 2 million 143 thousand 897 hryvnias. On average, the salary of an official was 178 thousand hryvnias per month (about 4.5 thousand US dollars).

In addition, the Mykolaiv District Administrative Court will consider the case based on the claim of the journalist of the online media NikVesti against the Mykolaiv Thermal Power Plant (TPP), which refused to provide information about the salaries of the management during 2023.