Day or two needed to stabilise energy system

A few days will be needed to restore the electricity generation after the Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy system on 5 December. After that  the energy system will begin to stabilise.

Source: Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, the head of Ukrenergo, the national energy company, during the 24/7 newscast on the evening of 5 December

Details: After more than 70 missiles were launched on 5 December, nearly 10 of which reached their targets, electric power plants and Ukrenergo substations were seriously damaged, but the situation is under control.

Quote: "There is some emergency energy supply…There will be a deficit in the energy system in the next few days (Monday-Tuesday – ed.) while some power units which were subject to emergency shutdown today will regain power. A day or two are needed to restore electricity generation in the system – after that, the situation is expected to stabilise.

This [emergency shutdown - ed.] will be the case throughout Ukraine. Some regions have  suffered more damage than others, such as Odesa Oblast. At the moment, we are supplying it with energy using backup electricity supply, so as to supply the critical city infrastructure first of all, and at least some household consumers. I think we will solve this problem in the next few days.

The energy supply in other oblasts where there were emergency shutdowns is being gradually restored as well. This process will continue during this evening and night. Meanwhile, our repairmen will be working on the energy system restoration, fixing substations and transmission lines."

Details: Emergency shutdowns were implemented throughout the country in order to maintain balance in the system. The rolling outages are being gradually replaced with consumption limits for each oblast.

On Tuesday, 6 December these limits will be similar to those implemented 3-4 days ago.

Kydrytskyi believes that Russians purposefully chose the peak frost period to launch an attack in order to "shut down the Ukrainian energy system" right during the temperature drop and thus cause as much suffering as possible to Ukrainians.

"Judging from the geography of strikes, I don’t doubt that the military consulted with Russian power engineers", Kydrytskyi added.

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