More than 50% of the Vitebsk region's heat sources have received readiness certificates for the heating season

September 19, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. More than 50% of the heat sources in the Vitebsk region have received readiness passports for the heating season, the head of the production and technical department of the housing and communal services department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Anatoly Sudak, told a BELTA correspondent.

"All work on preparing boiler houses and housing stock for the autumn-winter period is being carried out on time, however, their overall pace is somewhat hampered by insufficient funding," Anatoly Sudak noted. He stressed that the complete preparation of heat sources is planned to be finished within the established deadlines.

In addition, the conversion of two boilers with a capacity of 2 MW each at the Central Boiler House in Senno from gas to local fuels is proceeding according to plan, as well as two boilers with a capacity of 2 MW each, operating on milled peat, at the Central Boiler House in Dubrovno, and another one in Tolochin. This work is planned to be completed by October 15, and in November, two boilers with a capacity of 3 MW each, running on wood chips, at the heat source of the Liozno Central District Hospital, and an additional boiler with a capacity of 3 MW in the village of Farinovo, Polotsk district, will be commissioned.

For the inter-seasonal period, 77% of firewood and 65% of wood fuel chips have already been prepared in the region, amounting to 230 thousand cubic meters and 28 thousand cubic meters, respectively. There is a reserve of 3.7 thousand tons of fuel oil. As they are consumed during the heating season, the reserves of local fuels will be replenished.

In total, 451 heat sources with a total capacity of 2170 Gcal/h will operate in the Vitebsk region during the current autumn-winter season. -0-