St. Petersburg's Kirovsky District Hit by Major Heating Outage

A major utility accident on the morning of Friday, January 23, led to a mass heating outage in homes in the Kirovsky District of St. Petersburg. According to the press service of the energy company TGC-1, the incident occurred at the Avtovskaya CHP (CHP No. 15), which caused a significant drop in heat carrier parameters in the networks. In the district«s »Housing Service No. 3«, it was clarified that the accident at the combined heat and power plant caused a temperature drop in the system. The list of apartment buildings affected by the outage is published on an interactive map.

Technical details of the incident were disclosed by the city«s energy committee. According to their data, around 5:30 a.m., at the station owned by Gazprom Energoholding, a technological protection system was triggered, which shut down part of the generating equipment. This led to a sharp decrease in the temperature of hot water in the main pipelines — from 100 to 60-63 degrees Celsius (212 to 140–145°F).

As a result, in a number of residential buildings in the Kirovsky District, a drop in pressure and temperature was recorded in the heating systems. However, energy specialists emphasized that the circulation of the heat carrier did not stop, which eliminates the risk of pipes and radiators freezing.

To eliminate the consequences of the accident, a phased activation of water-heating boilers has begun. As reported by TGC-1, the temperature in the networks is already rising, and standard indicators are planned to be reached in the coming hours.