After a winter with cold radiators: all individual heat substations in Korablevnyi are promised to be equipped with thermal accumulators

In the Korabelnyi district of Mykolaiv, individual heating units in buildings have begun to be equipped with inverters and batteries so that residents do not remain without heat during power outages.

For the district this is not a technical trifle but a painful problem that people felt strongly last winter. During the heating season residents of the Korabelnyi district effectively froze every time the power went out: automated ITPs stopped without electricity, radiators became colder, and it became increasingly difficult to endure the cold in apartments.

That is why the current installation of backup power should become the answer to one of the main winter complaints of the district’s residents: “no power – no heat”.

The equipment for the municipal enterprise “Mykolaivoblteploenerho” was provided by the Representation of DanChurchAid and Norwegian Church Aid (DCA-NCA) in Ukraine. These are inverters and batteries that allow ITPs to operate even during prolonged power outages.

According to the director of the municipal enterprise “Mykolaivoblteploenerho” Mykola Logvinov, these installations make it possible for the heating units not to stop for 15-20 hours without power supply.

“And this year there was a large outage of 18-19 hours, and we were forced to start generators. DCA-NCA gave us equipment, inverters and batteries that allow ITPs to operate without stopping, without power for 15-20 hours. They give us the equipment, we install it ourselves. We have our own service that handles the installation and maintenance of this equipment. Forty units have already been received, 31 of them are already installed. We will deliver the other 9 units in the near future. And as new units arrive, we will further equip them. All ITPs that are in this district will be equipped with inverters and batteries”, – said Mykola Logvinov.

According to official information, the Korabelnyi district has 92 individual heating units. Before the start of the heating season donors promise to provide equipment to supply all these facilities with backup power.

One of the already equipped facilities was visited by the first deputy mayor Vitalii Lukov, representatives of DCA-NCA in Ukraine led by director Peter Bo Larsen, as well as the director of the municipal enterprise “Mykolaivoblteploenerho” Mykola Logvinov with the company’s specialists.

The city explains that last winter showed: operating generators for such facilities is complicated, expensive and labor-intensive. In contrast, inverters and batteries will allow ITPs to operate more smoothly, without constant manual starting of generators, and specialists will be able to form a schedule for charging the equipment.

This is essentially an attempt to create a so-called “energy island” in the Korabelnyi district – a system where buildings with automated heating units will not be left without heat immediately after the power goes out.

For residents who complained all winter about cold radiators during outages, the main question now is not the presentation of the equipment itself, but whether all 92 ITPs in the district will actually be equipped with inverters and batteries by the start of the new heating season.

Previously we wrote:

• Adventists help insulate the heat pipeline in the Korabelnyi district
• Where did such amounts in heat bills come from for heat that was not in apartments?, – outraged Mykolaiv residents
• When radiators are ice and patience ran out: residents took ITPs into their own hands
• The modernization trap: about a hundred high-rises in the Korabelnyi district freeze during power outages
• Cold radiators and the request to “bear with it”, – Mykolaivoblteploenerho on the absence of heating in high-rises