Municipal utility Kyivteploenergo (KTE) plans to attract financing from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for the construction of three power plants based on gas engine units in Kyiv. The relevant information has been published on the bank’s website.
According to the announcement, a single-stage tender will be held for the turnkey procurement and installation of equipment. The project provides for the construction of three gas engine power plants at different sites across the capital.
Part of the costs under the contracts is expected to be financed with loan and grant funds provided by the EBRD. At the same time, the amount of financing, the capacity of the future facilities and the timeline for their commissioning have not yet been disclosed.
The project is part of a program to develop distributed generation and modernize Kyiv’s energy infrastructure, aimed at increasing the resilience of the city’s energy system amid ongoing attacks on energy facilities.
Earlier, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that construction of new distributed cogeneration facilities with a total capacity of around 60 MW had already been completed in the capital. More than 100 MW of additional generation capacity is currently under implementation. According to him, by the end of this year Kyiv is expected to receive almost 200 MW of additional cogeneration capacity.
On June 16, during a visit to one of the critical infrastructure facilities, Klitschko said that four cogeneration units with a capacity of 4.5 MW each had been installed there as part of the city’s resilience plan.
Additional financing for the capital’s energy projects is being prepared as part of cooperation with the EBRD. In late April, the Kyiv City State Administration and the bank signed an agreement to prepare loan financing for Kyiv’s emergency liquidity support project under the Resilience Framework. The program provides for the modernization of the city’s district heating system and the development of additional cogeneration capacity to strengthen the capital’s energy security.
