Due to weather conditions as of Wednesday morning 237 settlements in Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Sumy, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Chernihiv regions and Kyiv remain without power supply, another 490 settlements are without power due to other reasons, including military operations, NEC Ukrenergo reported in Telegram.
According to the Ministry of Energy, the most settlements – 117 – without light in Kyiv region, another 46 – in Chernihiv region, 42 – in Khmelnytskyi, 14 – in Cherkasy, 13 – in Zhytomyr region and 5 – in Sumy region. In total, according to his information, without light 38 thousand subscribers.
According to Ukrenergo, the process of connecting consumers in Sumy region, where one of the energy facilities was damaged during a night drone attack, is ongoing. According to the Ministry of Energy, the Russian Federation attacked by drones a substation of the oblenergo in the border territory of Sumy region, as a result of which 1,016 subscribers in 14 settlements were de-energized.
At the same time, as Ukrenergo notes, it managed to promptly restore power supply to consumers in Kherson, who were de-energized due to the shutdown of several power facilities in the region during the air alert. Damage to buildings and equipment of one of them was discovered during the inspection.
In general, there is still a deficit in the energy system, as a result of which hourly shutdown schedules, as announced earlier, will be applied from 15:00 to 23:00.
At the same time, a record volume of imports from Romania, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Moldova is scheduled for today – 29,796 MWh with a maximum capacity in some hours up to 1,689 MW, which corresponds to the maximum possible value. The last record was recorded on Saturday – 29,100 MWh.
