Sevastopol braces for further power outages on Tuesday
MOSCOW. March 25 (Interfax) - The Sevastopolenergo power supply company has informed Sevastopol residents that parts of the city may face another emergency blackout on Tuesday evening.
"Sevastopolenergo offers its apologies for any inconvenience caused by no fault of the company, and it will make every effort to avoid cutting power supplies to consumers who were affected by a power outage on March 23 and March 24," the company said in a press release, posed on its website.
There will be power cuts in Sevastopol's Kamyshovaya Bukhta, Lyotchiki and Streletskaya neighborhood, as well a parts of the city center (Kommunisticheskaya and L. Tolstoy Streets) from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., according to the press release.
Sevastopol's Baidarskaya Dolina neighborhood, a part of Zhidilov Street, a part of Cape Fiolent, and parts of Khrustalyov Street, Geneval Ostryakov Avenue, and some other parts of the city will face a power outage from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Emergency power cuts were launched in Crimea and Sevastopol late on March 23 following instructions issued by the national power company Ukrenergo due to repairs on the Melitopol-Dzhankoy and Kakhovka-Istrovkaya high-voltage power transmission line that supply electricity to Crimea.
Sevastopol's electricity consumption was reduced by 30 megawatts.
Crimean Prime Minister, Sergey Aksyonov, said the Crimean government sees cuts in energy supplies coming from Ukraine as a subversive act.
"We consider the cuts in electricity supplies as a direct subversive act which aims to upset stability. This will have a boomerang effect on those who initiated it. I am sure a large part of the population of Ukraine does not support these measures," the news agency Kryminform quoted Aksyonov as saying on Monday.
Ukrenergo, for its part, explained the blackouts in Crimea by routine maintenance of high-voltage transmission lines that provide the peninsula with electricity.
