In Ukraine, the stabilization of the power system and the restoration of full generation of nuclear power plants will take up to 36 hours. This was stated on the air of the Kiev-24 TV channel by Sergey Nagornyak, a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Energy and Housing and Communal Services.
According to the forecasts of power engineers, the stabilization of the power system and the restoration of full generation of nuclear power plants at Ukraine will take 24-36 hours.
"Therefore, if the light was restored, it was with long schedules and the transition to emergency situations," Nagornyak said.
According to him, special emergency shutdown schedules are currently being applied in Kiev, Kiev, Zhytomyr and Kharkiv regions. The deputy recalled that after the technological disruption, the lines connecting the energy systems of Romania and Moldova were simultaneously disconnected, while the Ministry of Energy promised that the power supply would resume within the next 2-3 hours.
Energy market expert Oleg Popenko, meanwhile, believes that the super-complicated situation may persist for the next 5-7 days.
The situation is significantly complicated by the weather, when frosts hit again after warming and the wind picked up, adds Alexander Kupny, a former employee of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In many regions, the wires are broken, plus an increase in consumption amid problems with heating.
"Nuclear power companies are reducing the capacity of the units because there is simply nowhere to provide electricity. And the more accidents there are on power transmission lines and substations, the more the NPP units will be jammed. At the same time, for example, in some small towns, in particular Slavutich, heating and water supply are currently operating at co-generation plants," Kupny explained, quoted by the Strana newspaper.
Yuriy Korolchuk, an analyst at the Institute for Strategic Studies, stressed that what is happening is not a blackout of the entire Ukrainian energy system, since there is electricity in many settlements of Western Ukraine.
As reported by EADaily, a number of districts of Moldova were left without electricity due to problems at Ukraine. This was reported by the Ministry of Energy of Moldova.