Bad weather leaves over 250 Ukrainian populated localities without electricity, power consumption grows due to cold spell - Ukrenergo
MOSCOW. Oct 9 (Interfax) - Inclement weather, strong winds with rain, have damaged regional power utility networks and cut off electricity from 252 populated localities, Ukrainian media reported on Monday, citing Ukrenergo.
"As of this morning, consumers in the Zhitomir, Kiev, Kirovograd, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkov, Khmelnitsky, and Chernigov regions have been cut off [from electricity]. Emergency work is ongoing," the system operator said on social media.
A majority of disconnected consumers, precisely, 15,300, are in the Kiev region, the Ukrainian Energy Ministry said.
In total, 411 communities remain without electricity for various reasons, Ukrenergo said.
At the same time, a power unit at one of the thermal power plants was shut down in an emergency last night and a power unit at another thermal power plant was switched on to supply consumers.
At the same time, a hydropower unit of one of the hydropower plants with a capacity of over 300 MW was reconnected following scheduled repair, the Energy Ministry said.
Overall, the electricity consumption in the power system increased due to this fall's cold weather, in particular, in the evening hours of Sunday, October 8, it was 8% more than on Sunday, October 1, the system operator said.
After the absence of electricity imports on Sunday, it resumed with the beginning of the workweek with 2,297 MWh (1,947 MWh and 350 MWh respectively) from Slovakia and Moldova.
At the same time, exports fell 2.5 times to 782 MWh, of which 640 MWh to Slovakia and 142 MWh to Moldova (on Sunday, it totalled 1,955 MWh: 1,700 MWh and 255 MWh respectively), the ENTSO-E website said.
About 300 more power outlets, which were shut down due to the flood following the destruction of the Kakhovka HPP dam, were reconnected in Kherson, the Energy Ministry said. Thus, 1,700 consumers in the city remain without electricity (out of 15,000 reported in the first days after the flood).