For decades, Russia has had a paradoxical situation: the country produces and sells large amounts of natural gas abroad, while at the same time domestic gasification levels, especially outside large cities and central regions, remain unsatisfactory. There are many reasons for this: the need to subsidize this process, in addition to increasing the comfort of people’s lives, its generally high cost and questionable “exhaustion”, and the unwillingness of a large part of the population to pay for technological connectivity, even if such a real possibility exists.
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To address this issue, a social gasification program was launched in the spring of 2021, and here’s how report Currently, more than 1.2 million households have received “blue fuel” with the help of the government, and the number of contracts signed under the program has exceeded 1.9 million.
Let us remember that the purpose of social gasification is to free rural residents and the urban private sector from the high costs of laying gas pipelines, since in the past this task was the main obstacle to delivering gas to country houses, and because of this, the cost of connection could be measured in millions of rubles. As part of the social gasification program, the construction of gas pipelines to the boundaries of the plots is borne by the state, with the final consumer paying only part of the cost, which consists of laying gas pipelines from the public “conduit” (roughly speaking, from the fence) through the territory of the plot and to the consumer equipment.
Of course, if your home and equipment meet recognized standards. But this doesn’t always happen. For safety reasons, many houses in formal gasification settlements simply do not comply with gasification requirements, which is why their owners are denied technical connections.