Poltava, with almost 300 000 inhabitants, is located about 350 km South-East of Kyiv on the left bank of the Dnipro River.
The district heating company, Poltavateploenerho, is owned by Poltava Oblast. The company provides district heating in Poltava and four villages nearby – Reshetylivka, Mashivka, Kotelva and Karlivka. The DH company operates 346 gas boilers and 3 newly installed biomass boilers.
The DH Company’s customers base is 93 000 people (98% residential). Domestic hot water (DHW) is supplied all year around except for 2 weeks during summers when the system is closed down for maintenance. About 70% of the customers use DHW prepared from DH.
Poltava pays a lot of attention to energy efficiency and use of renewables. In 2015, Poltava joined the EU Initiative “Covenant of Mayors”. As a signatory, Poltava agreed to enhance energy efficiency and intensify the use of renewable energy sources.
In January 2017, the Poltava City Council issued a resolution on approval of the Sustainable Energy Action Plan of Poltava until 2020. This SEAP envisages a set of measures to ensure the sustainable energy development of the City, increase the use of renewable energy sources and reduce CO2 emissions.
Poltava Demonstration Project
The original project idea was installation of a biomass boiler, possibly in the form of combined heat and power (CHP) generation utilising Ukraine’s green tariff in combination with an upgrade of the network and substations in the district. The updated potential project idea is instead to transfer the DemoUkrainaDH project Poltava II and combine the flue gas condenser from this project with upgrading of substations. The intention is that the upgrading of substations will allow for lower return temperature and hence more heat generated in the flue gas condenser.
Current status
The project is currently pending awaiting normalisation of the general situation in Ukraine.