In the company Ukrenergo expects that the winter of 2024-2025 will be one of the most difficult compared to the previous three years.
This was reported by URA-Inform with reference to Suspilne.
Acting head of Ukrenergo Oleksiy Brekht said that in this regard, preparations are underway for several possible scenarios for how this period will go.
“Three options, which also take into account the worst-case scenario – continued massive shelling of infrastructure, transmission networks, generation facilities, and so on,” he said.
Brecht recalled that due to Russian shelling in the spring, Ukraine lost 9 gigawatts of generating capacity. Such figures are identical to the summer electricity consumption of the Netherlands, or the night-time electricity consumption of Ukraine in the summer.
The acting head of Ukrenergo called this a “significant loss.” At the same time, according to him, Ukrenergo has developed a plan to restore this capacity. Brecht also noted that the worst-case scenario for the coming winter is the continuation of massive Russian attacks on generation facilities.
“Under this scenario, with the volume of electricity imports that we already have today, we can have restrictions on the capacity of electricity on critical, cold days, up to two turns of shutdown schedules, no more. That is, until eight o'clock,” Alexey Brekht summed up.
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