It was not necessary: Mykolaiv to donate ₴4 million worth of equipment to Chornomorsk

The Mykolaiv City Council plans to donate equipment worth UAH 4 million to Chornomorsk in Odesa region.

This is evidenced by a draft decision posted on the website of the Mykolaiv City Council, according to NikVesti.

We are talking about one piece of equipment: a synchronisation master for 4 modules of the Master Panel ST1 manufactured by Jenbacher, with a book value of 4 million 67 thousand hryvnias. Mykolaiv received the equipment as humanitarian aid from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), which requested that the city transfer it to Chornomorsk.

Mykolaiv will donate 4 million worth of equipment to Chornomorsk, screenshot from the draft decision of the city council

In a commentary to NikVesti, Mykola Lohvinov, director of Mykolaivoblteploenergo, which currently owns the equipment, explained that the equipment is needed to synchronise four cogeneration units. Mykolaiv never used it.

According to Lohvinov, Mykolaiv received the Master Panel at the end of last year. The utility company needed it to launch the cogeneration facility, but the equipment arrived late, so Mykolaivoblteploenergo found another technical solution to synchronise the units.

«This is a cogeneration unit synchronisation master, designed for 4 units. It was supposed to be handed over to us sometime in October last year, when we were building one facility there. But IOM was late, and they handed it over in December, when we had already launched these plants. We were waiting for this equipment, but it did not arrive on time. And in order to launch the facility, we found another technical solution. Therefore, it is no longer needed at the site where we planned it. It can be used on other projects, but we will implement these projects no earlier than in a year. Therefore, it would be in storage. And in Chornomorsk, it is needed. And IOM asked us to transfer it to the Chornomorsk community,» said Mykola Lohvinov.

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