08 April 2025
(Photo: Odesa City Hall)
The municipal enterprise Odesa City Heat Supply failed to receive state funding to launch cogeneration units to create its own generation within the city.
This was announced during a meeting of the Standing Committee on Housing and Communal Services by Valeriy Ivanov, director of the utility.
According to him, the company needs UAH 200 million 750 thousand to launch these units. According to Leonid Hrebenyuk, head of the Department of Municipal Economy, the utility company tried to obtain state funding for these needs and submitted it to the expert working group that considers projects submitted to the digital ecosystem for accountable management of DREAM recovery, but the group did not support the project out of 18 members of the commission, 10 voted against it.
Thus, in order to complete these works, the ME needs to allocate these funds from the Odesa budget, but as the chairman of the commission, Oleksandr Ivanitskyi, noted, there are no such funds in the budget. Therefore, he suggested that they first get approval from the budget planning commission.
The fact is that the company and the city council expected to receive these funds from the state and did not include them in the city budget, and the realization that the state would not provide these funds appeared only in March 2025.
"I understand that this is very important for the city, but we will keep it or collapse completely. In my understanding, we are not ready to financially pull 200 million in 2025. You can write half a billion, but do we have the money? We have a development budget of 1.5 billion. I don't know how it will be possible to do this," said Mr. Ivanytsky.
Valeriy Ivanov noted that the municipal company is currently discussing with the Department of Finance the allocation of 60 million hryvnias for the first stage of work.
As a result, the deputies decided that the director of the utility company should first obtain approval from the budget committee, and then the housing and communal services committee will support the issue for consideration by the session. However, according to the deputies, they should try to resubmit these projects to the DREAM Commission to attract state budget funds.
Кирило Бойко