On 10 March, Kyiv City Council adopted the capital’s energy resilience plan, with 92 deputies voting in favour, an LB.ua correspondent reported from the council session.
Deputies had planned to consider the plan on 9 March, but there was no quorum in the chamber that day. On 10 March, following a conciliation council meeting, they were able to hear and approve the energy resilience plan for Kyiv’s territorial community.
The plan approved by the council outlines three budget scenarios.
The first scenario, backed by current municipal budget programmes, provides funding of UAH 10.86 billion through the end of 2026. It includes measures to restore damaged generation facilities, physically protect them, ensure backup power for water supply, repair heating networks, build new cogeneration units, expand solar power capacity, and upgrade building-level heating substations.
Under this “minimum scenario”, spending for the current year is allocated as follows:
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Backup power for heat supply — UAH 3.5 billion (gas generators for boiler houses);
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Physical protection of combined heat and power plants — UAH 2.4 billion;
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Backup power for water utility pumping stations — UAH 1.8 billion;
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Restoration of heat generation capacity — UAH 1.37 billion (restoring heat supply and repairing networks);
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Strengthening resilience of electricity grids — UAH 0.96 billion (networks operated by DTEK);
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Energy resilience for Kyiv residents — UAH 0.59 billion (solar power systems, generators and individual heating substations for homeowners’ associations).
All items except the last are considered critical priorities for implementation this year and can be financed from the city budget.
The programme also includes an additional list of expenditures funded from the city budget, but with a larger number of measures within the same areas outlined above. These costs are estimated at UAH 13 billion. The allocation of these funds within existing programmes, district budgets and municipal utilities will require further redistribution and will be carried out by the Kyiv City Council later during the annual budget revision.
The plan also contains an extensive list of measures that are desirable to implement to strengthen energy resilience but require financial, technical and organisational resources from central government authorities. This list includes more items and has an estimated cost of UAH 37.8 billion. The budget provides for additional measures to physically protect facilities, as well as further upgrades to generation equipment and steps to decentralise the system.
It is also noted that the decision was adopted together with an amendment assigning responsibility for implementing the measures already included in the budget to Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko and the Kyiv City State Administration.