Energy supply and energy saving
One of the main factors determining the opportunities for economic development is the provision of all its components with fuel and energy resources, which is reflected in the availability of offers on the energy market.The main goalof energy policy is the formation and continuous improvement of economic, organizational, regulatory and legal mechanisms aimed at ensuring a stable supply of energy resources to the population and the city's economy, and the rational use of fuel and energy resources.
In addition, the main energy resources that must be financed from the city budget are natural gas and electricity.
Electricity consumed by the city's consumers:
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | |
| Total, million kWh. | 229,2 | 280 | 296,1 | 276,7 |
| of which | ||||
| industry | 111,4 | 97,8 | 107,1 | 101,9 |
| utility and household consumers | 72,1 | 76,4 | 69,99 | 69,5 |
| budget | ||||
| state | 14,99 | 16,4 | 16,5 | 15,5 |
| city | 4,1 | 3,98 | 4,3 | 3,72 |
The debt for electricity used by the city's consumers as of 01.04.2003 amounts to 13255 thousand UAH. Including
| thousand UAH | |
| By industry | 1284 |
| By population | 2323 |
| By budget: | |
| state | 1235 |
| local | 10 |
| regional | 14 |
| Subsidies | 24 |
| Benefits | 315 |
A particularly painful issue is the state of the city's consumption of natural gas.
Natural gas consumed by the city's consumers:
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | |
| Total, million cubic meters | 220,3 | 253,8 | 230,8 | 266,4 |
| Including: | ||||
| population | 70,4 | 67,76 | 74,1 | 68,888 |
| budget | ||||
| local | 0,84 | 0,84 | 0,68 | 0,689 |
| regional | 2,38 | 1,88 | 1,82 | 1,726 |
| state | 1,7 | 1,74 | 1,99 | 1,999 |
| Including | thousand UAH |
| Population | 4886,12 |
| Subsidies | 10,76 |
| Benefits | 327,79 |
| Budget | |
| state | 50,73 |
| regional | 11,18 |
| local | 8,73 |
The heating season of 2003-2004 is ongoing. Despite all the difficulties, the city authorities together with the employees of the Lutskteplo municipal enterprise ensured an uninterrupted supply of heat to the homes of the city's residents.
Thermal energy consumed by city consumers:
| 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | |
| Total, thousand Gcal | 678,22 | 591,83 | 690,95 |
| Population | 497,45 | 425,59 | 408,38 |
| Budget | |||
| state | 38,91 | 34,41 | 35,35 |
| city | 55,6 | 57,86 | 43,42 |
As of 01.01.2004, the debt for thermal energy consumed by the city is 10074.8 thousand UAH.
| Including | thousand UAH |
| Population, incl. | 9056,7 |
| Subsidies | 28,8 |
| Benefits | 963,8 |
| Budget | |
| state | 91,7 |
| local | 2 |
The city's water consumption indicators are as follows:
| 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | |
| Total, thousand cubic meters | 20582 | 17719,0 | 16849 |
| Population | 17249 | 14931 | 14083 |
| Budget | |||
| state | 644 | 530 | 346 |
| regional | 354 | 325 | 200 |
| local | 405 | 372 | 631 |
As of 01.01.2004, the city's debt for consumed water amounts to 8925.1 thousand UAH.
| Including | thousand UAH |
| Population | 7163,1 |
| Benefits | 981,3 |
| Subsidies | 1,4 |
| Budget | |
| state | 0 |
| local | 154 |
| regional | 0 |
With the aim of introducing technologies and production in the city:
- reconstruction of the external lighting of the city of Lutsk using energy-saving technologies continues (in the amount of 188 thousand UAH);
- a program has been developed and a set of measures is being carried out to install water, gas, and heat meters;
- new technologies are being introduced in construction.
Within the energy-saving program for 2003, an E-1\9 type boiler was used instead of DKVR-6,5\13 in the summer period. The economic effect from the implementation of this measure is 28.8 thousand UAH. A UE-I type device was used to remove scale from the heating surfaces of boilers in the enterprise's boiler houses at the addresses: Rivnenska St., 119, Voronikhina 15b. The economic effect from the implementation of this measure is 1.7 thousand UAH.
The enterprise "Lutskvodokanal" and the Polish company "KREVOX" in Warsaw developed a drinking water purification project for the facility "Modernization of the technological system of the water treatment station in Lutsk", and construction and installation work for stage I "Reconstruction of pumping station No. 1 - pressure filters" worth 10.4 million UAH has begun.
Automation and replacement of pumping equipment at the KNS-6 sewage pumping station on Dubnivska Street were carried out for the amount of 68.83 thousand UAH.
The key problems of the fuel and energy complex remain:
- financial imbalance of fuel and energy complex enterprises, manifested in significant depreciation of fixed assets and limited capital investments for their renewal, and growth in accounts receivable and payable of enterprises in the sector;
- lack of proper legal and regulatory support;
- increase in the share of physically worn-out and morally obsolete fixed assets, and reduction of total production capacities.
An important component of the city's functioning is its provision with energy resources.
The main goals and objectives of the energy policy for 2004:
- creating a favorable economic environment to ensure stable and efficient development of the city's fuel and energy complex;
- reducing specific energy consumption levels;
- overcoming the payment crisis;
- ending free energy consumption;
- introduction of new energy-saving systems in construction, "Lutskvodokanal", "Lutskteplo".