Don’t be fooled by the lack of outages. 1 The power grid situation remains difficult. There is a deficit covered by commercial imports even in mild weather like this.
In order to partially compensate for generation losses, we are forced to import electricity of up to 1.7 GW of capacity during certain hours, as reported on the Telegram channel “What’s with the Economy?”, which is hosted by experts from the Center for Economic Strategy (CES).
At the same time, Ukraine is not even close to using its maximum daily capacity: the limit of 1.7 GW means that up to 40.8 GWh can be imported per day, while in July Ukraine imported an average of 26.4 GWh per day.
We import 13-15 GWh per day in recent days, against the peak of 35+ GWh in June and early July. We will see if there will be outages during the next wave of warming. The heat will fall on the weekend, maybe it will be okay. But plans for uninterruptible power supply should definitely not be postponed. There are three months left until the cold weather, comments Yuri Gaidai, senior economist at CES.
The Central Electricity System reminds that Ukraine does not sell electricity abroad, while physical cross-border flows remain, since Ukraine is part of the unified ENTSO-E network. Electricity can go, for example, via transit from Poland to Romania through Ukrainian territory.
Source: Racurs
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