There will be blackouts in the winter even when the generating facilities is restored

In Ukraine, the lights will be turned off in the winter even if all the damaged generation facilities are repaired

Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, the former head of NEC Ukrenergo, announced this in an interview with Economic Pravda.

He noted that the lights will not be turned off only under very optimistic scenarios, namely air temperature from +5 to +15 degrees and no shelling of energy facilities.

«I believe that in cold weather there will be blackouts, even if all plans to restore generation are implemented,» Volodymyr Kudrytskyi is confident.

The former head of NEC Ukrenergo believes that power outages during the heating season may begin in December, because there may not be cold weather in November. According to him, in the warm periods of winter, when the temperature will be above 0, Ukraine can do without blackouts.

«And if there will be some cold period, well, for example minus 10 average daily temperature, then I don't see how the deficit can be covered,» he added.

Power outage in Mykolaiv Oblast

As you know, power outages across Ukraine have returned since mid-May 2024. 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.

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