Kim on the electricity situation: «We have to tighten our belts and save money»

Vitaly Kim. Archive photo of NikVesta

The head of the Mykolaiv regional administration, Vitali Kim, said that the situation with the Ukrainian energy system is bad, but its condition should improve.

The head of Mykolaiv Oblast said this in his video address.

According to Vitalii Kim, a new plan will be implemented this weekend, according to which only 30% of the population will be without electricity at the same time.

«We have a very bad situation with electricity. Now people sit without light for 12 or 16 hours. I spoke with «Ukrenergo», this weekend there will be a new plan, where the light will be turned off not according to regional limits, but according to queues. That is, two queues out of six are excluded, approximately 30% of people are without electricity,» said Vitalii Kim.

The head of the Mykolaiv RMA also added that the state of the power system will improve because one of the damaged power units is being removed from repair. However, in a week, another one will start to be repaired.

«We have to tighten our electricity belts, we all have to save now. We are working on making the graphics more or less suitable,» added Vitalii Kim.

Why are the lights turned off again 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 industry 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, «Mykolayivoblenergo» 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 a 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 not work for hours in Mykolaiv due to the lack of electricity supply when blackout schedules are introduced.