Ukrenergo spoke about emergency shutdowns

Due to significant cooling, Ukrainians began to use heaters, which increased electricity consumption. As a result, emergency shutdown schedules were introduced. The head of the board of NEC Ukrenergo, Vladimir Kudrytsky, announced this on Tuesday, May 14, in a telethon.

He noted that Ukraine has lost a lot of capacity in power plants, and now it is not enough. Therefore, it is necessary to resort to power cuts for the industry for a certain period of time. That is why for a large number of household consumers the lack of lighting may go unnoticed. But the lack of electricity in the system has long been felt.

“It can be compensated in several ways: commercial imports carried out by companies from Europe When this is not enough, Ukrenergo can use emergency assistance from neighboring countries, when it is not enough , we can limit the consumption of industrial consumers it is not enough, To balance, we are forced to involve not only the industry, but also the population in the restrictions, “said Kudritsky.

However, on the night of May 14, due to the cold weather, there was a sharp increase in electricity consumption.

“It happened around 21:00, and we had to take emergency measures to balance the system to maintain control of the situation Up to 10% of consumers (in all regions – ed.) were temporarily disconnected until the end of time. day,” he said.

Kudrytsky said that currently there is not enough capacity of Ukrainian power plants to cover consumption, and there is also a lack of imports.

Earlier, Ukrenergo reported that they were introducing emergency power outages across Ukraine due to a shortage in the energy system.

Let’s recall that the last time Russian troops attacked electricity generation and transmission facilities in six regions of Ukraine.