The municipality of Odessa, in collaboration with the Japanese government and UNDP, with support from international partners from Norway and Sweden, has launched a new project to build generation facilities based on gas piston engines with a total capacity of approximately 30 MW.

This project is part of decentralization efforts aimed at enhancing the energy resilience and security of the Odessa community.

The first cogeneration unit has been connected and is already supplying one of the city's boiler houses.

«This unit is capable of delivering 3.3 MW per hour. The boiler requires about half of that. In the future, we plan to redirect the excess to power other critical infrastructure facilities,» said the Mayor of Odessa.

Currently, work is underway to connect three more cogeneration units that have already arrived in the city. In total, 9 units with a total capacity of 30 MW will be manufactured for Odessa under the UNDP order.

Additionally, 7 cogeneration units from the German agency GIZ have arrived in Odessa. All will be installed at district boiler houses, with two already in the connection process. Components for connecting the remaining five are expected to arrive soon.