To prepare for autumn-winter period, the country plans to repair 8 power units, 59 boilers, 44 turbines - the Ministry of Energy

At a government meeting chaired by Prime Minister Askar Mamin, Energy Minister Nurlan Nogaev reported about preparations to the upcoming autumn-winter period.

According to N. Nogaev, in general, the heating period in the republic was stable.

“The winter maximum load was observed on January 9, 2020 and amounted to 15,182 MW, which is 4% more than last year level”, the Minister of Energy informed.

226 energy enterprises (or 87%) received certificates of readiness for work in autumn-winter period 2019-2020. 34 energy enterprises that did not receive a preparedness passport were brought to administrative responsibility.

For the year 2019, 3,996 technological violations were committed in the Unified Electric Power System of Kazakhstan. In comparison with the same period of last year, the number of technological violations decreased by 34 or 1.3%, during the heating period it increased by 135 or 6%.

In the past heating season, the required amount of operational fuel supply of more than 3 million tons of coal and 120 thousand tons of fuel oil was provided at energy sources.

N. Nogaev emphasized that in preparation for the heating season, an important issue that needs to be resolved is a significant amount of accounts payable for fuel.

“As of June 1 of this year, the debt of energy-producing organizations to KazTransGas-Aimak JSC is 6.4 billion tenge. There is also a debt of energy-producing organizations to Bogatyr-Komir LLP in the total amount of 3.3 billion tenge”, - the minister said.

For today, energy enterprises are preparing for the upcoming autumn-winter period.

This year it is planned to repair 8 power units, 59 boilers, 44 turbines. At the beginning of June, work was completed at 3 power units, 5 boilers and 8 turbines. At various stages of repair work is underway at 3 power units, 21 boilers and 9 turbines. In general, repair work is carried out according to the schedule.

For the preparation of electric networks of the Unified electric power system of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the autumn-winter period 2020-2021. scheduled repairs of power lines with a total length of 25,828 km, as well as 429 units of high-voltage substations. 1,140 km of power lines and 65 substations have been repaired on electrical networks.

N. Nogaev drew attention to the ongoing work on the elimination of electric networks recognized as ownerless.

According to the Minister, as part of the implementation of the tasks defined in the 51st Step of the National Plan "100 concrete steps", the elimination of ownerless networks is provided.

"A lot of work has been done. The length of ownerless networks has been significantly reduced. As a result of the work carried out, the length of ownerless electric networks as of January 2020 was 225 km and 98 transformer substations", - N. Nogayev informed.

In general, the identified ownerless electric networks should be transferred to the balance of power transmission organizations by the end of 2020.

In conclusion, N. Nogaev outlined a number of tasks that must be completed for the successful passage of the autumn-winter period 2020-2021.:

1. perform all repair works on power plants, electrical networks;

2. ensure the standard accumulation of fuel in warehouses of energy sources;

3. ensure reduction of debt to fuel suppliers;

4. take measures to reduce the accounts receivable of consumers of utility services to suppliers and accounts payable of energy supply organizations;

5. perform all measures to prepare educational, health, life support, social and cultural objects of localities;

6. take measures to reduce the debt of municipal consumers;

7. The Ministries of justice, energy, national economy and NCE "Atameken" together with interested parties to work out the issue of increasing the amount of fines for non-receipt of the passport of readiness for the heating period by energy enterprises.

"The Ministry, together with local Executive bodies, continues to monitor the preparation of energy enterprises for the upcoming heating season", - energy Minister N. Nogayev concluded.

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