
Repair work continues, heat is supplied to the houses of the villages
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At the Neryungri State District Power Plant in Yakutia on Tuesday there was a fire at the transformer substation and in the cable channel.
The emergency situation at the Neryungri State District Power Plant in Yakutia, where a fire occurred on Tuesday, has been eliminated, repair work continues, the Neryungri district administration told RIA Novosti.
A fire broke out on the territory of the Neryungri State District Power Plant on Tuesday. The republic's Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that a transformer substation and a cable duct there caught fire. One person was injured. The cause of the fire could have been an emergency operation of electrical equipment, the department added.
“The emergency situation at the Neryungri State District Power Plant has been eliminated, but repair work continues,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
According to the district administration, which is given on the Max channel, from Thursday evening heat began to flow into the houses of the village of Serebryany Bor, from Friday night to Neryungri and at 06.00 (00.00 Moscow time) to Berkakit. The temperature regime is currently maintained by two water heating boilers at the Neryungri State District Power Plant and one at the peak water heating boiler house in Neryungri. At the same time, pinpoint problems remained.
“Individual houses with cold radiators remain, low temperature conditions are observed in the drug treatment clinic, tuberculosis clinic and infectious diseases unit of the Neryungri Central District Hospital... Issues with congested networks and peripheral outages must be resolved today,” the message says.
The administration also clarifies that more than 100 people took part in the restoration work. In addition, they explained that the switching on of power unit No. 3 of the Neryungrinskaya GRES, which is under emergency repair, is scheduled for September 28, the commissioning of power unit No. 2, which is under a planned overhaul, is scheduled for October 10, and the repair of power unit No. 1 will be carried out before the end of the year.
According to the website of the Yakut Department of Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, in the Neryungri region it is currently plus 11 degrees.
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Switching on of power unit No. 3 of Neryungri State District Power Plant
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Commissioning of power unit No. 2 of Neryungri State District Power Plant
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