A combination of several factors: increased generation, reduced consumption due to the weekend and warm weather, as well as network repairs contributed to the absence of blackouts on Sunday, but Ukrainians still need to prepare for the application of power supply limitation schedules on weekdays, DTEK executive director Dmitry Sakharuk said.
“A combination of several factors allows today, on a particular day, not to limit consumption. But tomorrow, when it will be a working day and consumption will increase, schedules of cut-offs will be used,” Sakharuk said on the air of the National Telethon Unified News on Sunday.
At the same time, he explained that the increase of the generation and its supply was due to the return to the system of some thermal and nuclear units, the increase of the production of electricity by solar power plants due to the favorable weather conditions, as well as the networks repaired “thanks to the titanic work of energy specialists.
On the other hand, according to him, a positive role is played by warming, prolongation of the day and reduction of consumption due to the weekends.
At the same time Sakharuk specified that in addition to balance outages, that is, generation restrictions, there are also network restrictions, because of which in some areas there may still be outages.
“We still have a lot of places that were severely affected by the shelling and which have not been repaired completely, for example, Odessa, Kyiv region, Kharkiv region, Zaporizhia,” the DTEK top manager noted.
As it was reported, now all the nine nuclear power units available after the occupation of Zaporizhzhya NPP are in operation: over the last few days, the power system received additional 1220 MW of capacity after repair of one of the nuclear power units and 220 MW of additional capacity of another one due to the completion of repair of the turbine generator.
DTEK Energy Holding within the framework of Rinat Akhmetov’s Steel Front initiative in February-September this year supplied Ukrainian military and medics with over UAH 250 million worth of free electricity.
“Overall, medical and military institutions in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions received 45.15 million kWh of electricity. This allowed the state budget to save 250 million UAH and direct these funds to the urgent needs of the defense,” the holding said in a release on Friday.
According to it, more than 100 state and municipal medical institutions, as well as military and security agencies are provided with free electricity.
In particular, electricity is provided to Dnipropetrovsk Regional Clinical Hospital named after I.I. Mechnikov, Dnipropetrovsk Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital, Kyiv City Clinical Hospital № 8, and others.
DTEK’s press service clarified to Energoreform that supplies of free electricity continue.
The company noted that since the beginning of the war, SCM businesses, which includes DTEK, have sent more than UAH 3 billion to help Ukraine and Ukrainians, including as part of the Rinat Akhmetov Steel Front military initiative, in particular, over 150,000 bulletproof vests, over two thousand drones and radios, 700 cars, 0.5 million liters of fuel and others were made and transferred.
Distribution system operator DTEK Kyiv Electric Grids has added the addresses of legal clients to the schedule of stabilization outages.
“Business owners can now find out about possible blackouts by simply writing their business address in the search box on the site. This will allow them to plan their business and prepare for a possible blackout,” the company said on Facebook on Wednesday.
It is clarified that almost 10 thousand addresses of legal clients have been added to the schedule of potential outages, which are located in buildings that have a separate address from an apartment building and were not previously included in the stabilization outages database.
In addition, it is noted that the company continues to expand the address base in the charts. “If your address is not on the schedule, but there is no light, please let us know via the feedback form on the website of DTEK Kyiv Electric Grids. We will definitely check everything and add your business address to the schedule if necessary,” the company explained.
DTEK Kyiv Grids announced the cancellation of stabilization power outages in Kyiv by Sunday morning.
DTEK Kyiv Electric Grids returned electricity to all consumers who were subjected to stabilization blackouts by order of NPC Ukrenergo from 09:20 on October 22 to 00:36 on October 23. All houses in Kyiv with light,” the company said on its website on Sunday.
For his part, Serhiy Kovalenko, CEO of the energy supplier YASNO, on his Facebook, among other things, announced the cancellation of shutdowns in Kyiv.
“End energy alarm in Kyiv,” he wrote, advising to keep an eye on the company’s announcements to have time to prepare for possible outages.
DTEK Kyiv Regional Electric Grids and DTEK Donetsk Grids also reported that by Sunday morning all their clients, to whom stabilization restrictions were applied by order of Ukrenergo, also had electricity due to their cancellation.
On Sunday morning, the head of the Rivne OVA, Vitaliy Koval, said that during the night, power engineers managed to connect most of the subscribers to the power supply, to whom it was limited due to Russian attacks on the power system. “Now we are working on connecting another 24,750 subscribers. These are, in particular, residents of the village of Zarya, Alexandria, Klevan, Orzhei, Shpanov, Shubkov and others,” he wrote on his Facebook.
At the same time, all publications continue to call on Ukrainians, both the population and businesses, to save electricity as much as possible and not create additional load on the networks during peak hours.
As reported, as a result of damage to the energy infrastructure of Ukraine as a result of the morning large-scale air attacks of Russian troops on October 22, NPC Ukrenergo was forced to impose power supply restrictions in Kyiv and ten regions. According to the company, the scale of destruction on that day is comparable to or greater than that inflicted on the energy system on October 10-12. Earlier, Energy Minister German Galushchenko said that Russian air attacks on energy systems, which have intensified since October 10, have damaged 30-40% of the total national energy infrastructure. According to his calculations, approximately half of the thermal generation capacity was damaged, due to which Ukraine lost 4,000 MW of capacity.
After the first test deliveries of coal to Poland in the amount of 50,000 tonnes, DTEK Energy Holding is considering the possibility of ensuring regular export of energy resources, taking into account the problems of logistics in the conditions of war, Dmytro Sakharuk, the Executive Director of DTEK, said.
“We made the first test shipments of coal to Poland. This is a small amount – 50,000 tonnes. Unfortunately, there are very big difficulties in terms of logistics, because the railway infrastructure in both Ukraine and Poland is not designed for such a volume of movement of goods. As well as ports in Poland – Gdansk and Gdynia. Therefore, there are test deliveries, but there no large volumes, as it could be done via the sea, Pivdenny port, for example,” Sakharuk said in a commentary to the Energy Reform portal.
At the same time, he assured that the company is considering the possibilities and continues to work out ways to supply coal to Poland.
“Coal from other sources is critical for Poland to replace the volume of deliveries from Russia that were banned. It would be very good if Ukraine would lend a shoulder to Poland, which helps us a lot and would help the Poles survive the rejection of Russian coal,” he said.
According to his calculations, in times of seasonal coal surplus, the energy holding could ship approximately 100,000-150,000 tonnes per month to Poland – the volume that remains after providing its thermal power plants and other consumers.
“This will not ensure full diversification of supplies, but it will be our contribution to the fact that our Polish friends will receive assistance. It is suitable in terms of quality. You just need to learn how to quickly and smoothly deliver it to Poland,” DTEK’s top manager emphasized.
At the same time, he drew attention to the fact that the supply of coal from Ukraine by rail is a faster and more economical alternative for the Poles compared to sea supplies.
JSC DTEK Zakhidenergo continues to buy out all the proposed interstate section capacity for exporting electricity to Poland at daily auctions for April, according to data on the website of NPC Ukrenergo.
According to the published results of the auction for April 2-6, the company bought 190 MW of distributed power for each hour of the day.
According to the data on the ENTSO-E website, from April 1 to April 5, exports are the same – in a flat schedule of 190 MWh all day.
As of April 6, data are not yet available.
As reported, on March 28, Ukrenergo resumed daily auctions for the purchase of interstate cross sections for the export of electricity to Poland. All import-export auctions were suspended on February 24 due to the entry of the Ukrainian power system into an isolated mode as part of synchronization with ENTSO-E.
The power systems of Ukraine and Europe switched to synchronous operation on March 16.
