The project plans to reconstruct the existing gas boiler house by installing (connecting) a cogeneration unit on its territory to generate electricity and heat. By installing a cogeneration unit on the territory of the existing boiler house, the utility company will be able to stably provide services to consumers in two microdistricts of the city and uninterrupted supply of heat energy to apartment buildings (2,465 consumers in the "population" category), budget consumers (3 preschool educational institutions, 1 higher education institution, 1 secondary education institution, 1 medical institution, a municipal enterprise building), 14 consumers in the "Other" category (entrepreneurial structures, a banking institution), which is critically important in the conditions of a power shortage in the energy system and given the recent weather conditions. Such a "modernization" of the technical base of the enterprise will ensure stable access to utility services, because constant heat generation avoids sharp temperature drops in the coolant and water hammer in the network during power outages. In addition, thanks to the electrical power of the cogeneration plant (530 kW), it is able to fully cover the boiler house's own needs (pumps, burners, automation) in electricity, which will reduce both the load on the city's power system and the company's costs for purchasing electricity. In addition, a powerful cogeneration plant will produce significantly more electricity than the boiler house needs, which will allow the company to give (sell) excess energy to the national grid in the future and receive income. Cogeneration plants usually operate in automatic mode and are integrated into the existing boiler house dispatching system, which will minimize the impact of the human factor and increase the overall safety of operation of this facility.

To maintain the boiler room's operability during frequent power outages and, accordingly, to ensure the supply of thermal energy to consumers, the boiler room is equipped with a diesel generator. Despite the fact that it allows you to avoid a complete shutdown of the system, this method has a number of critical drawbacks, in particular, maintaining the boiler room's operation from a diesel generator requires a significant amount of diesel fuel, which is financially costly for a utility company; a diesel generator is not designed for long-term continuous operation for weeks or months; generator maintenance requires the constant presence of personnel to refuel and monitor its operation; ensuring the operation of the boiler room from a diesel generator is directly dependent on the timely supply of large volumes of fuel; when switching the boiler room's operation from mains power to a generator, short-term stops of the pumping equipment often occur, which causes the risk of water hammer and disrupts the temperature schedule of the coolant. Under such conditions, the operation of the boiler room during a period of lack of electricity from a diesel generator is nothing more than a temporary measure. It does not provide energy sustainability (since it does not produce additional heat) and economically exhausts the enterprise. Installing a cogeneration unit will allow replacing expensive diesel fuel with natural gas, automating processes and turning the boiler room into an autonomous energy unit.