Saint Petersburg is gearing up for the upcoming heating season with extensive network repairs and modernization efforts. Governor Alexander Beglov highlighted the successful passage of the 2024-2025 season, attributing it to proactive measures and significant investments in the city’s energy infrastructure.

The city plans to repair 280 kilometers of heating networks this year. These repairs are part of a larger initiative to overhaul and upgrade the city’s engineering networks.

Beglov emphasized the importance of the modernization efforts, stating that the city passed the previous season without major accidents or serious failures due to the large-scale modernization of the energy complex and high-quality preparation.

In preparation for last winter, power engineers checked almost 10,000 kilometers of networks and over a thousand heat sources. The city has seen an 11% decrease in technological disruptions on heating networks, and citizen complaints related to heating issues have decreased by almost 38%.

In 2025, following the acquisition of JSC “Teploset of St. Petersburg,” the city initiated a comprehensive reconstruction of networks in several districts, including Vasileostrovsky, Frunzensky, and Moscow. The plan is to construct, reconstruct, and overhaul more than 1.5 thousand kilometers of engineering networks during the year.

A total of 117 billion rubles from budgetary and extra-budgetary sources will be allocated to the development of the engineering and energy complex of St. Petersburg in 2025, including preparations for the new heating season.

Nearly 700 hydraulic tests on networks are scheduled for the summer, with 59 checks conducted in 13 districts of the city during the short working week of June 9-11.

Beglov instructed district heads to ensure residents are informed about the ongoing work and its timelines. He also emphasized the need for strict adherence to the new rules for preparing for the heating season and the continuation of repairs to historical buildings in the central districts.