Power engineers are launching an additional unit of the NPP — the state of the power system should improve

On the night of June 8, an additional unit of one of the nuclear power plants will start working, which will briefly improve the situation in the power system.

Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, the head of Ukrenergo, told about this on the UP talk show.

«We expect that on the night from Friday to Saturday, an additional unit at the nuclear power plant will be put into operation, and this will give a pleasant boost to the capacity we have in the entire power system for two weeks,» Volodymyr Kudrytskyi said.

According to him, the schedules will not disappear, but will become «softer» throughout the energy system.

The head of Ukrenergo noted that with the commissioning of this power unit, it will be easier for the regions to comply with the limits. But, in his opinion, this improvement will be temporary, because July is still ahead, when the heat will affect the load of the power system.

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 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, «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.