Electricity situation difficult in Kyiv and region – dpty energy minister
On Monday night, Russia again shelled Ukraine's energy infrastructure, which led to additional power outages for consumers in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, First Deputy Energy Minister Artem Nekrasov has said.
He also noted that the situation with the energy supply of the city of Kyiv and Kyiv region remains difficult.
"In Kyiv and the Kyiv region, as before, there is still a significant electricity shortage. The situation, unfortunately, is difficult, emergency outages are in effect. The return to the predicted hourly outage schedules will occur immediately after the situation in the energy system stabilizes," Nekrasov said during a briefing at the Ministry of Energy, which was broadcast online.
As he noted, hourly outage schedules are applied in all regions of Ukraine for all categories of consumers, as well as capacity limitation schedules for industry and business, and emergency outages in several regions.
National Power Company (NPC) Ukrenergo, for its part, reported that electricity consumption is showing a growing trend.
"Today, January 26, as of 9:30, its level was 5.8% higher than at this time of the previous working day, on Friday. The reason for such changes is the application of a smaller amount of restrictions in some regions," Ukrenergo said on Telegram.
According to its information, due to difficult weather conditions in the morning, more than 40 settlements in the Ternopil and Kyiv regions were completely or partially deprived of electricity. Ukrenergo indicated that the repair teams of the regional power companies are already engaged in restoring damaged lines.
As reported, DTEK announced the transition of Kyiv region, where emergency shutdowns were used for a long time after the massive attacks of the Russian Federation, to hourly electricity restriction schedules. According to the schedule for Monday, the light will be absent from 15 to 17 hours a day, depending on the group.