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The group of companies “Veolia” is ready to conduct a technical audit of “Poltavavodokanal”

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Representatives of the French company said about it today during a meeting with the head of Poltava Regional State Administration Valeriy Golovko and first deputy chairman of the Poltava Regional Council Volodymyr Marchenko.

As director of «VEOLIA» Matthias Vogel commented, his company operates in three areas: water and sanitation, energy production and usage, waste management. They work in Ukraine since 1995, yet only one direction – waste management. They work in Kiev, Zhitomir and Yalta. Overall, the company has extensive experience in implementing modernization projects similar to “Poltavavodokanal”.

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According to the «VEOLIA» representatives, before Poltava they analyzed 32 water service utilities and have chosen Poltava for cooperation. Before the meeting with governors foreign experts become familiar with the specific details of the “Poltavavodokanal”.

– Colleagues from the water service utility very openly communicated with us, we have considered many options of cooperation, – said Matthias Vogel. – This utility has a team of real professionals and powerful infrastructure. On the other hand, there is an awful loss on turnover of 150 million UAH and a large depreciation of equipment. I want to emphasize that we do not intend to purchase the company or its privatization. On the contrary, we are interested in long-term cooperation. The form of cooperation – a concession, joint venture or the other – should specify our local community and regional authorities.

– The first step in this cooperation – a technical audit of the entire system of water utility to find out the condition of the company as for today and how much investment is needed to turn it into profitable, – said the chairman of the Poltava Regional State Administration Valeriy Golovko. – Because the main component of losses in my opinion – is the depreciation of equipment. Need of modernization occurred 20 years ago. But without external help, we are unable to upgrade it in compliance with modern requirements and technologies. And the company is in dire need of modern technologies, especially in energy and saving energy.

First deputy head of the regional council Volodymyr Marchenko said that the regional government is trying every year to raise funds to support the company. However, they are not enough.

At the meeting parties reached an agreement on signing a memorandum with the company «VEOLIA». Valery Golovko offered to foreign partners to conduct a technical audit of the company, as required by the community. Then upgrade as an example one of the water intakes to demonstrate how much capable partners are and see what region may receive as a result of the joint investment project and modernization of the enterprise. Especially energy savings as the energy component in the tariff for water today is the lion’s share.

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