Kyiv installs five mini combined heat and power plants but they will not meet city's winter demand

Kyiv has installed five cogeneration units with second-level protection, with two already operating and start-up and commissioning work ongoing at the other three.

Source: Petro Panteleiev, acting First Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration, at a press conference, as reported by Radio Liberty

Details: The total capacity of the mini combined heat and power plants is 66 megawatts but this will not cover the city's overall winter consumption. Their operation is designed to power specific critical infrastructure facilities.

Quote: "We have ordered a 20-megawatt diesel power plant… We plan to launch it in March."

More details: Kyiv announced a tender to purchase 15 cogeneration units back in 2024. The deadline for delivery of goods, completion of work or provision of services was specified as 31 December 2025.

A key feature of cogeneration units is that they produce heat and electricity at the same time.

Background:

• The government set a special gas price for cogeneration units in frontline oblasts and simplified the rules for installing gas piston and gas turbine units as well as block modular boiler houses.
• It was reported earlier that state-owned companies planned to install a further 400 MW of distributed gas generation by the end of 2025.
• In June 2024, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced plans for Ukraine to build 1 gigawatt of distributed gas generation by the end of 2024 and a further 4 gigawatts in the coming years. The media later dubbed these plans "Zelenskyy's Gigawatt".
• This refers to what is described as gas piston and gas turbine power plants. These are relatively small units which, by burning a small amount of gas, can generate electricity and heat simultaneously. Modern units are twice as efficient as Soviet-era ones because they use less gas and produce more energy.

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