Emergency shutdown schedules have been canceled in six regions. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Energy.
According to operational data from the ministry as of March 30, emergency shutdown schedules in all regions where restrictions were applied during the evening peak load were canceled yesterday until the end of the day.
According to the report, the cause of these outages was network restrictions and insufficient local generation due to damage to power plants.As of March 30, hourly electricity restrictions apply only in the Kharkov region for 120 thousand subscribers. The reason is serious damage to the equipment of NEC Ukrenergo and, as a consequence, the inability to transmit the required amount of electricity, reports the Ministry of Energy.
So far there is no shortage of electricity in the energy system. The energy system operates in a balanced manner.
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What happened the day before
Yesterday, at the request of Poland, electricity was supplied to the Ukrainian energy system from 12:00 to 15:00. The thermal power plant unit was put out of service for short-term repairs.
As a result of a UAV attack, equipment at one of the substations in the Odessa region was switched off at night, resulting in a short-term loss of power to about 70 thousand consumers.
In the Dnepropetrovsk region high-voltage lines were switched off, household consumers, industry, and the railway were left without power supply – disruptions in train traffic were recorded.
In the evening, the overhead line in the Sumy region was cut off, household consumers and industry were switched off.
In In the Kirovograd region, the high-voltage overhead line was turned off, the railway was de-energized (there were no disruptions to train traffic) and household consumers.
All consumers, according to the press service, as of March 30, were powered.
