Denmark will allocate €4.7 million for the restoration of damaged energy facilities — the Mykolaiv region will receive part of the funds

The Energy Support Fund of Ukraine will receive an additional 4.7 million euros from Denmark for the restoration of critical infrastructure facilities in two front-line regions.

We are talking about the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions, the press service of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine reports.

The total amount of listed and announced contributions from donors is currently more than 551 million euros. Minister of Energy Herman Halushchenko emphasized that the need for such assistance for the frontline regions is significant.

«Denmark became the first sponsor of the Energy Support Fund of Ukraine, making a contribution to the recovery of Ukrainian energy as early as April 2022. We sincerely thank our partners for this unchanged position and continued support. It is especially urgently needed by the front-line regions, whose energy facilities are subject to enemy attacks every day,» said Herman Halushchenko.

It is worth reminding that since the beginning of the full-scale war, Denmark has provided Mykolaiv Oblast with $118 million in aid.

What about the light in Mykolaiv Oblast?

As you know, power outages across Ukraine have returned since mid-May. The main reason for this is the resumption of large-scale shelling of the energy sector by the Russians, which destroyed 9.2 GW of Ukrainian generation over the past three months.

The government explained that the outages will last until August-September. And in winter, a deficit in the energy system is predicted even at high temperatures.

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that the Ministry of Energy and «Ukrenergo» should develop a resolution that would regulate «fair schedules of turning off the lights for consumers.»

In Mykolaiv and the region, outages occur according to the queues to which the region is divided according to the «Mykolaivoblenergo» schedule — there are 6 of them in total. The list of addresses by queues can be viewed at the link.

Later, «Mykolaivoblenergo» presented a search system that should help consumers more easily navigate schedules and power outages.

It is also worth noting that almost all this time the lights were turned off according to hourly schedules for 2 hours in one row, however, on June 4 , special emergency shutdown schedules were introduced in Mykolaiv and the region. Consumers were without light for 5-6 hours.

Trams and trolleybuses may stop working for hours in Mykolaiv due to the lack of electricity supply.

The head of the Mykolayiv regional administration, Vitalii Kim, previously stated that the situation with the Ukrainian energy system is bad, but its condition should improve.

Later, in a comment to NikVesti, Vitalii Kim said that the Mykolaiv region cannot avoid long-term blackouts, because it is in the same energy system as other regions of Ukraine that suffer from shelling.