at the beginning of the heating season and the passage of the city season. well, by the way, i would like to note now that when we talked about a certain recommendation and considering the financial possibilities to pay according to the tariffs, it was not enough. this is the category of people for whom payments were made in pre-war times were too high, but when you talk about certain programs, i would like more details. mykola, after all, about heat modernization programs, let’s find out if they are ongoing, what they are, and well, the details, in any case, you know more. well, that’s about it. of course, they don't last, they can't develop this year for many reasons, first of all, it's with limited smith funding, including in connection with the war in the country, we now have more funds for the restoration of houses damaged during the shelling of the city. well, i can

for example, to say that in our city the energy-saving program was implemented quite actively and quite huge funds were allocated as the city budget, i will tell you this over the past few years, about 400 million hryvnias were invested directly by the residents themselves in thermal modernization from own homes is as an element of co-financing those funds or those programs that are implemented directly in the place and in the city in the last six months we will get more than billions of hryvnias just directly modernization of buildings where all work has been carried out and appropriate counters have been installed from non-payment to 70% that is, well, it's serious. they'll figure it out if we're talking about the city in general - it's up to 400 km . the tube has been replaced in the city for two or three years in the last few years. it's the same rushes and

heat loss, we are modernizing the plant itself, the energy of the shopping center and the like in the program, quite a lot of them were concentrated somewhere in the last 3-5 years on this kind of program. thank you for joining our broadcast. live with us and we are moving on , the heating season in all regions will begin when the air temperature outside for three days in a row will be below 8°c and ukrainians' apartments should not be colder than 18°c, or 20 if we are talking about corner rooms, these indicators set the norms or not, if the temperature deviates from these indicators, the heat supply organization is obliged to recalculate the fee for the period of such deviation, this is stated in the notification of the ministry of community and territory development, in addition to the decision on the start

and end of the heating season the local government accepts the expectation of a difficult heating season in the conditions of war in the zhytomyr region, for example, there is an active collection of firewood. this was reported by the chairman region vitaliy bunechko broadcasts a marathon and the only news is that there is enough firewood in zhytomyr region and there is an opportunity to help other regions as well. we understand that this heating season will be the most difficult since the beginning of independence. we are preparing for the fact that russia may bomb our infrastructure objects, we are preparing for the fact that russia may, as a result of bomb attacks, damage our heating plants, therefore, repair crews are being prepared in all cities and communities, and in addition, we are definitely preparing alternative types of fuel such as i can say that we have already harvested

more than 50% of firewood, this work is ongoing, all communal services of kharkiv are working 24/7 preparing the city for the heating season. this was reported by the mayor of kharkiv igor terekhov, but despite this, winter will be the hardest because the russian aggressors are purposefully destroying objects of thermal energy will be transferred to 200 km of main pipelines, the city of kharkiv has never known such transfers, therefore, we are very actively working on the system to pass the heating season and that despite the terrifying shelling of the city of kharkiv, kharkiv was a desert and kharkiv was a hot year. donetsk region is preparing for the heating season . the authorities are already purchasing the necessary equipment to provide heat to critical infrastructure facilities and to heat the population, the head of the

donetsk regional military administration, pavlo , told us about this in an exclusive comment kyrylenko what mechanisms is the government preparing to solve the critical situation in the region in winter, let's hear the mechanisms, are they running - this is the installation of modular boiler rooms for facilities of critical infrastructure - these are heating points depending on the e-e number of the population in one or another city that will remain, that is, people who can go to the e-e streets in the heating points and receive hot food and heat and, accordingly, the purchase of electrical devices with metal eyes and we would like to remind you that ivan slobodianyk, the executive director of the all-ukrainian association of communities, and mr. ivan are now with us in the studio, and our guests are also joining us in the online mode: andrian prokip, an energy expert of the ukrainian institute of the future and oleksandr

slobozhan, executive director of the association of cities of ukraine, we welcome you, gentlemen. so, i have a question for you all. which in their regions are preparing for the heating season. so, please, who will start, mr. oleksandr, please, if you allow, and commenting on the plots, very good plots in my opinion, and the central and municipal authorities respond adequately see if we talk about the country as a whole from the reserve fund 1.4 billion uah has already been provided for the purchase of various equipment and

this will be handled by the state emergency service in the event of emergency emergency situations e-e with the possibility of using such equipment by any community e-e where an emergency or emergency situation will arise so that residents are not left without heat, hot water supply or light, such equipment is designed for somewhere from 100 to 200,000 residents at the same time. it is possible to provide this first moment two the moment is very important, they talked about uah 14 billion, according to the laws of ukraine , it is provided for repayment of the so-called difference in the tariff, this supports utility companies, such a difficult heating season. we hope that the parliament will also approve the allocation of uah 24 billion,

these are funds from the state budget and they go to support heat supply enterprises not only so that tariffs do not increase, but also to compensate for various deficits in financial resources that arose due to damage to those or of other heat supply facilities. i would like to draw your attention to the fact that today we have about 400 critical infrastructure facilities that provide heating and hot water supply destroyed by missile strikes . uah 100 million if we talk about kharkiv, which was mentioned in today's story, there is also a destroyed thermal power plant, the local budget has already allocated uah 60 million for reconstruction, and we expect that the government will allocate uah 70 million in the near future

hryvnias, the main point is that last year, a memorandum was signed between the central government of a sleeping city of ukraine that tariffs for the population and budget institutions should not increase, now it turned out that the non- increase of tariffs is already recorded in the law of ukraine, but there is a problem to the reduction of subscribers who either left or their premises were destroyed, state financial support is directed to this, but there is another moment that after the ministerial championship was established, a 10% reduction has already been introduced in ukraine, er volumes of gas consumption we er for the summer months er under the chairmanship of the minister of regional development, mr. chernyshov, several meetings were held attended by 163 rural village mayors who have a centralized heat supply and, in

principle, a 10% reduction plan volumes of gas consumption, we will be able to fulfill it at the expense of energy-saving measures, heat modernization, the transition to alternative sources of consumption, and we have an agreement on environmental changes that the procedures for obtaining permits for boiler plants will be simplified which switch to alternative sources . we hope that communities, mainly small communities, can unhindered. a very good story in zhytomyr. i hope that the same will happen in ivano-frankivsk oblast, rivne oblast, volyn oblast, chernihiv oblast, and communities will be able to use dry matter, that is, wood, in order to ensure my respective enterprise will procure two firewood, we will definitely talk in more detail in the context of our forestry, yes, mr. andrian,

i would like to ask, taking into account these forecasts regarding the most difficult winter period, as mr. mykola, the turner, corrected me, he really pointed out that we have a heating season, and it lasts from the fall. the most difficult for all times in the history of ukraine, taking into account the war in the period with which we are approaching what we managed to prepare and accumulate . force majeure in the form of the grouping of the genetic infrastructure by the enemy and if there is no

force majeure in the form of a drop in temperature in the second half of february at the beginning of march, then we will pass this heating season this winter without any problems anya as for gas a and as for electricity even in the case of e-e if we lose access to such zaporizhzhia npp taking into account those capacities e-e thermal power plants that are lost taking into account the predicted e-e drop of tic consumption in the winter of capacities energy system and reserves, primarily coal, if we are talking about electricity, this will be enough. but this does not mean that there is no need to prepare and there is no need to reduce consumption, and this is the information about which

they say that it will be 3-4 degrees lower in ostelly. here, the question arises because the centralized heat supply we have only about 35% of household subscribers, and the question arises as to how we will stimulate those components that have, for example, an autonomous heating system, which receive gas from the orif, they can start their heating season earlier eh. they can continue to burn eh by opening the windows in winter and this can significantly disturb all these efforts to save eh gas that will be made by elements of the centralized infrastructure of centralized energy supply in if we talk about the formation of

some eh administrative methods of how to force e -e citizens from the economy. this year's consumption is completely different, and across ukraine in general and in each region separately, considering only people who left their homes and went either to other regions of the country or left the country, unfortunately , even the emigration of the population to rural regions it will be possible to disconnect this house from the heating if half of it has left. it is absolutely true. and it will not be possible to disconnect the apartments either. the second big problem that they talked about is payment discipline, because there is a

moratorium on disconnection from energy supply services in wartime, and of course what is here these subsidies from the budget are absolutely necessary for e-e energy companies, first of all for teplokomunenergo facilities, because in the conditions we are in conditions of falling e-e codes, our payment discipline, for example, during active actions in the kyiv region , fell below 50% uh, in the conditions of winter, when the payment will increase significantly compared to the summer, uh, people understand that what they can not pay will postpone these payments for later, and the energy companies will uh, it will be enough, we will have a position regarding what you said about uh, additional revenues the government allocates almost uah 1.5 billion for preparation for the heating season, the prime minister of ukraine denys shmyhal announced this and he

emphasized that there is a threat of terrorist acts from russia, therefore the money will go, including for the purchase of equipment with simple and quick deployment and maintenance, the cabinet of ministers also continues repair work of critical infrastructure and other preparation for the heating season, according to shmyhel, readiness is currently 75%, this heating season will without exaggeration be the most difficult in the history of independent ukraine, the main risk is terrorist acts of russia against critical infrastructure ukraine has already accumulated 13 billion cubic meters of gas, these reserves will be enough if the winter is a moderate shortage of gas, it is possible to compensate for the savings, but the threat of terrorist acts from the russian federation will be constantly present in the event of an enemy attack on the thermal power plant, gas pipes, boiler houses or storage facilities in ukraine will have to import even more gas or convert these boilers to other types of fuel, so the cabinet of ministers in july banned the export of not

only gas, but also fuel oil and coal, some cities already are planning to buy generators, are preparing boilers, mobile boiler houses, heating points, let's go back to what was said before this readiness for 75%. what exactly is the 25% lack of readiness at the moment, and what are the main challenges facing our communities now, you have to understand that our association is mainly small communities, these are small rural and village communities, and the situation there is a little different than where centralized heat supply is large uh, no, she 's just different because, as povoroznyk said, what er, it is hardly possible to apply the strategy of preparing for alternative fuel types that can be applied in small rural and urban communities and in the big city of kyiv, dnipro or kharkiv, because these are completely different approaches, so i think it is better there, for sure there oleksandr slobozhan e can say about this, for

example, regarding our communities. for example, we see that, despite the statements of the head of oda of zhytomyr region, for example, i talk to the heads of communities of chernihiv region, i see that there is a problem of procurement firewood because it is not possible to walk in the forest and there is a problem now with this harvest, so it must also be solved now, in addition to this, it is very important for our communities to be able to financially ensure the ability to pay even at those tariffs if concerns communal enterprises, and there are also certain risks here, in particular, the fact that now , first of all, the ports with the sale of grain are moving very slowly in our country, the main gross income of our budgets of our communities is personal income tax from the lease of shares and here now from it turns out that the second the threat is a well-intentioned initiative to abolish the taxation of military personnel, and for now

, for many communities, it is actually a source of livelihood, and here we would like to use this opportunity to state that we are against the complete abolition. we would like to 50% were necessarily sent to those military units located on the territory of the communities, and 50% actually remained in the community because, well, it is now such a painful issue for everyone, that's why lack of readiness . i think there may actually be a shortage of fuel oil or other types of fuel that may be needed at a critical moment in case of force majeure and let's also return to our online guests, mr. volodymyr, please, oh, i'm sorry oleksandr oleksandr slobozhan, we have almost 400 a-a

objects of critical infrastructure located in the cities to date have been destroyed, their reconstruction is ongoing, allocation of funds from the reserve fund in the amount of uah 100 million for chernihiv okhtyrka kremenchug these are small funds, these are necessary funds, but small funds now need such funds for restoration kharkiv, this includes the total interest. in preparation for the heating season, the second point is the 1.4 billion uah , which we have talked about several times . talked about uh mobile

heating points uh we talked with you here more than once about suitable boiler houses for large and medium cities only uh in case of an emergency only this equipment can save the situation when the system is not defrosted, that is what we need to pay attention to. as for the general preparation of utility companies, they need funds, and here my colleague andrian talked about how to influence or not influence unscrupulous consumers. the fact is that the cabinet of ministers decree gas consumption has already been reduced by 10%, regardless of which consumer it will be, an economy mode is included, which is applicable to all of europe

. 20 and those 30% each. these are the measures that, in general , i.e. reduction of gas consumption, diversification of resources related to coal, fuel oil, peat , wood, i.e. transition to an alternative even such a city as zhytomyr, which is considered a large city, is already finishing work on the electricity connection new boilers that will work on alternating current and this too corresponding reduction in gas consumption, etc., attention should be paid to this if we are talking directly about the residents, those who have condominiums, they are in a certain way more advantageous because it is possible to install individual heating points, invite specialists well, it is in other

multi-family buildings, check the losses with a thermal imager, carry out thermal modernization measures , it does not matter whether it is a state program, is it a municipal program, can it be, accordingly, condominiums independently, at their own expense, prepare for passing the heating season, let's actually finalize our program, let's talk in detail, we have a little more time, specifically about applied ones. here are such examples. how today people can help themselves to help and to calmly enter the winter, well, actually , it is clear that we all rely on the local authorities and hope that everything will be better than predicted, but still, we can give you three practical tips on how to insulate our citizens today please, mr. andriani, let me know that this is probably the most difficult thing for me. of course, the option for those who can move

to a country house where there are more security options is the easiest. i personally have options for you as a person who lives in to an apartment building with a centralized heat supply uh, so far i haven't come up with anything except for some uh, the simplest electrical appliances uh. the only hope is that there will be no interruptions in the supply during the war, so we, unfortunately, i can't give too much advice here. yes, mr. ivan, please. well, i can from my experience, just for sure to share well, i think that all the classical tools are to be prepared for winter i live in a rural house outside the city and i also think about firewood and now i think maybe i even had it we used to have a stove at home, we threw it away, now we

regret it. actually, it is also called rough. we will now think about returning it, but if we can’t make it because of this, it is now quite modern . well, no, not old-fashioned fireplaces, but such fireplaces, let’s say, which are in a private house well, it is possible to warm up and have some aesthetics, besides that, i well, of course, we stock up with some kind of fuel for deser-generators, because there is no gas, the gas boiler will not work without it, even if there is gas, but there will be no electricity, for example, then accordingly, gas gas is not will work in addition to this, we are also currently working on such a thing as, well, let's say, gas generator front boilers. now we are exploring all the different possibilities there, e.g., in terms of alternative burners, which can quickly be adjusted somewhere, but the basic things, i think, but i didn't name them, well, and of course, this is elementary economy, uh, close the windows, really be disciplined for yourself. i remember once in germany, when we were visiting them, the temperature was 18-20° and

we were very cold, and now they predict that it will be even colder when we were in we were cheap fares we were calm there we really opened the windows and er balconies and heated the air, so it is really possible and necessary to heat up somewhere in the sense that we can go somewhere and uh or gather in the same room to spend the night. we understand that the government should also pay attention to the issue of energy efficiency or small generation if we are talking about survival and use in the winter, so see we and the state emergency service held a joint meeting on august 22 this year and everyone the municipality was sent such an algorithm of actions in the event of a staff situation, this is the first, that is, the municipal government has an algorithm of actions, the first

concerns our citizens, i will focus on high-rise buildings because a private e-e in a private house is much easier, there are two types of multi-story buildings where there are condominiums created and where there are no condominiums in principle, the first advice is that you still have time and there is an opportunity to install an individual heating point where it is done in the basement, the second moment is important regardless of which house you are in live, you can either do it yourself or try a master with a thermal imager to check where you are losing heat, it is not a very expensive service and you can do it even on your own if it is a condominium, it is done centrally, the third point here was a lot of talk about the fact that backups electrical equipment, first of all, what do we advise, check the capacity of your networks, the fourth point, a-a, in the basements, it is also possible

to install appropriate generators that will be able to supply the house with a backup, e-e power supply in the event of an emergency, of course you have one more general point to have about lanterns with warm light, uh, rechargeable, not battery-powered, which will help at least for a moment. someone has to go down there, set up, start the house. entrance or in your apartment, respectively, you can carry out elementary means of heat conservation , this can be done by october 15 absolutely every resident of a high-rise building, regardless of whether there is does he have condominiums or does he not have osbbs, we cooperated

on the street, measures, generator, network power, respectively, inspection, etc. and that’s all these things that are not so expensive, mr. oleksandr, thank you very much , in fact, very detailed, very useful information, for example, i will show you this fragment, a fragment of our programs to our management of the condominium and we will look at all these points and see if they are followed by us. everyone present gave us advice today during the guest broadcast. thank you for joining us online in the online format with us. oleksandr slobozhan, executive director of the association of cities of ukraine and andrian about cyprus, an expert on energy issues at the ukrainian institute of the future . thank you, gentlemen, ivan slobodyanyk, executive director of the all-ukrainian association of communities, was with us in the studio. ivan. thank you and all the viewers. that

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