Friday, December 24, has been declared a day off for budgetary organizations working in Ulan-Ude. As Kommersant was told in the press service of the government of the Republic of Buryatia, such a decision was made at a meeting of the operational headquarters in connection with the accident at CHPP-1, after which 137 apartment buildings and 22 social facilities in the Zheleznodorozhny district fell under the cutoff of hot water and heat. Ulan-Ude. The question about the situation at the CHPP was asked today at a press conference by Russian President Vladimir Putin, he promised to personally deal with the accident.
“The adopted decision is necessary in order to reduce the load on the heating main during the period of elimination of the consequences of the accident at the CHPP. At present, reserve boilers have been launched at the CHPP, which allow keeping heat in apartment buildings, but the temperature in the apartments will be below normal. The power companies will be able to restore heat supply on December 25, ”the press service said.
At present, street lighting in the Zheleznodorozhny District of Ulan-Ude has been turned off to compensate for the load on the power grid. Residents of the houses of the emergency CHP plant actively use electric heaters, which is why the load on the network has increased by 30%. During the day, the republican Ministry of Emergencies was distributing electric heating devices to the population. On behalf of the head of the Republic of Buryatia, Aleksey Tsydenov, the energy sales organization Chitaenergosbyt JSC will submit proposals for compensating the population for additional electricity costs.
As Kommersant previously reported, an accident occurred at the TPP-1 in Ulan-Ude due to a fire in the electrical wiring. Due to the scale of heat and hot water shutdowns, an emergency regime was introduced at the republican level, and the regional TFR opened a criminal case under the article “violation of safety requirements for fuel and energy complex facilities”.
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