Ukrainian energy officials said on Wednesday they had no choice but to introduce emergency and scheduled blackouts after losing at least 40% of the country’s power generation capacity after days of devastating cruise missile attacks. Russians and drones.
“Unfortunately, according to new data, about 40% of the total infrastructure and our generating capacities are seriously damaged,” Oleksandr Kharchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s energy minister, said in a statement broadcast on national television.
“Restoration and repair work is ongoing, but miracles are possible only to a point. Therefore, we must expect not only emergencies, but also scheduled outages today and tomorrow so as not to overload the network,” he announced;
NPC Ukrenergo, Ukraine’s national energy company, on Wednesday called for “understanding and support” from its energy users as they were forced to introduce consumption restrictions after the missile attacks. The company said the “consumption restrictions may apply across Ukraine from 7 am to 10 pm this Thursday.”
“Outages will be staggered – the duration of the outage is also determined by the regional power utility, but no longer than 4 hours,” the statement said.
“The enemy, who cannot compete with the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the battlefield, has again attacked the civilian energy infrastructure. Therefore, tomorrow we will apply controlled and carefully calculated restrictions to consumers, which we must implement so that the system works in a balanced way”, said the energy company.
Source: CNN Brasil
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