Russia claims that electricity is being supplied to occupied Zaporizhzhia from Crimea
UKRAINSKA PRAVDA — MONDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER 2022, 16:37
Russia claims that electricity is being supplied to occupied Zaporizhzhia from Crimea
Following the shutdown of the nuclear power station in Enerhodar, electricity is apparently being supplied to the Russian-occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia Oblast from Crimea.
Source: Russian state-owned news outlet RIA Novosti, quoting Russian-appointed puppet governor Yevhen Balytskyi
Details: According to the collaborator, residents of the captured territories are receiving a "stable electricity supply" from Crimea. Balytskyi claims that the electricity supplied from Crimea should be sufficient even in the winter period.
Previously: Power unit No. 6 of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) was disconnected from the power grid at 03:41 on 11 September. Preparations are underway for its cooling and transfer to a cold state.
For reference: We note that these statements made by the occupiers are untrue for a number of reasons. First of all, Crimea is currently under threat of blackouts. Prior to the annexation of the peninsula by the Russians in 2014, Crimea had a shortage of electricity and was supplied from other regions of Ukraine.
Since Crimea did not generate its own electricity to meet domestic demand, the peninsula suffered regular rolling outages for several years.
The situation was rectified only in 2018-2019 with the launch of the Tavriia (Simferopol) and Balaklava (Sevastopol) power plants, each with a capacity of 470 MW.
The main fuel for both power plants was gas supplied from the Russian-seized "Boiko towers" in the Black Sea. The Armed Forces of Ukraine damaged these installations in a missile attack on 20 June.
In order to prevent blackouts on the peninsula, the occupiers want to resort to stealing Ukrainian electricity and to connect the ZNPP to their power grid.
It would be extremely difficult to do this, however, because the Ukrainian energy grid operates separately from the Russian one. It takes a great deal of money, time and additional equipment to supply electricity from the ZNPP to Crimea. Economichna Pravda explains this in detail in this article: Russians want to disconnect the ZNPP from Ukraine. Is this possible, and what consequences could there be?
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