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Zhytomyr to allocate land plots to Naftogaz for construction of bio-CHPPs soon – mayor
KYIV. Oct 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – At its meeting on Monday, October 24, Zhytomyr City Council plans to allocate land plots for construction of two bio-CHPPs (combined heat and power plants) planned by NJSC Naftogaz Ukrainy, Mayor Serhiy Sukhomlyn has said.
"On Monday we are holding an extraordinary session, providing land plots for construction of large bio-CHPPs in Zhytomyr. Many thanks to Naftogaz. It has already ordered equipment, memorandums on construction have been signed with it," he said during the Energy Club discussion on Thursday.
According to him, these plants, which will work, including on RDF (Refuse Derved Fuel, from waste after sorting), produced at a recently open garbage processing plant, will make it possible to get 15 MW of electricity for the city and reduce gas consumption in an autumn-winter period up to 5 million cubic meters, while 43-45 million cubic meters are planned for 2022, and in 2015 consumption was 97 million cubic meters.
At the same time, the mayor noted that several additional quarterly local boiler houses on wood chips had already been put into operation in the city this year, and the CHPP opened last year using this raw material additionally supplies 1.1 MW of electric energy to the grid.
"In conditions when Zhytomyr was completely de-energized as a result of Russian missile attacks on October 18, this helps a lot," Sukhomlyn concluded.
At the same time, he said that the city authorities, over the past two days after the enemy strikes, developed a plan to provide critical enterprises with energy resources, in particular, with the help of generators.
"We have allocated funds. Now we urgently buy high-power generators in Turkey," Sukhomlyn said.
He explained that these generators would be used to power the water utility, the main 600 kW sewerage station and 26 pumping stations.
"At least in this case, we will supply water, hourly, but we will," the mayor assured.
In addition, he said that approximately the same plan with generators was designed for a municipal heat supply company, which includes ten district and 32 quarterly boiler houses, in particular, the city will have about five or six teams with generators of 250 kW, which will turn on quarterly boiler houses for four to five hours to warm up the system.
"We are working on this system so that the city does not remain without heat and water, because a potbelly stove in every apartment in a multi-storey building is a terrible picture," the mayor noted.
According to him, in extreme cases, in each micro-district of the city, according to the developed plan, there should be large heating points located, for example, in kindergartens or schools where there are autonomous boilers.
"We faced completely new challenges. We simply counted on savings. And when the system cannot work because there is simply no electricity, we were not ready for this," the mayor stressed.
In early October, Naftogaz announced that it had begun preparatory work for construction of combined heat and power plants that would run on biomass (wood chips) and RDF in Lviv and Zhytomyr. The planned period for putting objects into operation in Lviv is the first quarter of 2023, in Zhytomyr – the fourth quarter of 2023.
In total, Naftogaz intends to build at least nine combined heat and power plants and bio-boiler houses in eight regions of Ukraine with a total capacity of 250 MW of thermal energy and 52 MW of electricity.