Kyiv is preparing its power grid for winter: the plan requires 61.6 billion hryvnias
Petro Panteleev, Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration, told Suspilne about this.
According to Petro Panteleev, the priority projects in the resilience plan relating to preparations for winter are estimated to cost around 30 billion hryvnias. Part of the funding is to be allocated by the state.
“The priority projects under the resilience plan related to winter amount to around 30 billion hryvnias. The state will also allocate funds. Work is already underway. These projects require regular and stable funding,” he noted.
In the second quarter, Kyiv plans to allocate a further 7.5 billion hryvnias. These funds are to be directed, in particular, towards ordering equipment, settling accounts with contractors and launching new projects.
Key areas of preparation for the heating season include the physical protection of critical infrastructure, the installation of backup power sources, the development of cogeneration, and the creation of backup heat supply systems for specific districts of the city.
Work is also continuing in the capital to restore equipment that was damaged or destroyed during the winter. In particular, this concerns the Darnytsia CHP plant.
A separate focus is on the energy resilience of social infrastructure. The city plans to develop solar power generation for schools, as well as provide backup power for institutions.
Kyiv’s comprehensive energy resilience plan has a total budget of 61.6 billion hryvnias. Of this amount, the city’s funds amount to 10.6 billion hryvnias, and additional funding amounts to 51 billion hryvnias.
Kyiv was the last region whose winter preparedness plan was to be approved by the National Security and Defence Council. The document provides for three components of funding.
The first component concerns measures identified as critical priorities. These can be implemented using the city budget by the end of 2026.
This list includes the restoration of power generation facilities damaged by shelling, their protection against attacks, backup power supplies for heating and water, repairs to heating networks, the creation of new cogeneration facilities, the development of solar power generation, and improving the energy efficiency of housing cooperatives.
Over 10 billion hryvnias from the city budget are to be allocated to these measures.
The second component of the plan covers a broader range of measures that the city will be able to implement once funding sources have been identified. If funds are reallocated from the city budget, over 13 billion hryvnias could be allocated to implementing the plan by the end of 2026.
The third component consists of measures under the Comprehensive Plan for Kyiv’s Resilience, which the city can only implement subject to amendments to Ukrainian legislation and the mobilisation of central government resources.
Kyiv expects to receive over 37.7 billion hryvnias from the state. These funds are intended, in particular, to ensure a backup power supply for heating, strengthen the resilience of the electricity grid, introduce decentralised heating, repair the capacity of CHPP-5 and CHPP-6, and enhance the physical security of the CHPPs.
As reported by ThePublic, a corruption scheme involving the embezzlement of state-owned enterprise funds during the full-scale invasion had been operating at Ukrenergo for years. Law enforcement agencies estimate the losses to the budget at over 440 million hryvnias.
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