A number of districts of Moldova were left without electricity due to problems at Ukraine. This is reported by the Ministry of Energy of Moldova.
"Due to serious problems in the power grid of Ukraine on Saturday morning, January 31, the voltage on the 400 kV line Isaccia — Vulcanesti — MGRES (Moldavskaya GRES. — EADaily) fell, which led to an emergency shutdown of the electrical system," the agency said in a telegram channel.
Problems with electricity, including in Chisinau.
It is noted that the operator of the power system, the company Moldenergika, is working to remedy the situation, in some localities the voltage has already been restored.
There is no additional information yet.
According to the First Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Energy of Ukraine Denis Shmygal, today at about 11 a.m. "there was a technological disruption with simultaneous disconnection of the 400 kV line between the power systems of Romania and Moldova and the 750 kV line between the Western and Central parts of Ukraine." This caused a cascading shutdown in the power grid of Ukraine and the triggering of automatic protections at substations.
"The blocks of nuclear power plants were unloaded. Now in Kiev, Kiev, Zhytomyr, Kharkov regions, the dispatcher has applied special emergency shutdown schedules. Ukrenergo power engineers are working to restore power supply. In the coming hours, the light will be restored," Shmygal writes in his telegram channel.
It got to the point that the case was taken over by the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky. He heard reports by Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko and Energy Minister Denis Shmygal on the emergency situation. "There is all the necessary response at the level of the Ukrainian energy system," he said in a statement. in his telegram channel, he added that "the task is to stabilize the situation in the near future."