Shmyhal explained why there have been no power outages for several days

Ukraine covered the electricity deficit with solar generation / Illustrative photo from open sources

At the moment, planned shutdown schedules are not applied, as the electricity deficit was covered by attracting solar generation, as well as exiting the repair of two NPP power units.

This was announced by the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Denys Shmyhal, during the government meeting.

«The state of the Ukrainian energy industry remains in the center of our attention. Due to the solar generation, as well as the completion of the repair of two power units of nuclear power plants, planned shutdowns of consumers have not been applied for several days. But this does not cancel the need to systematically save electricity,» he said.

If a significant deficit is recorded in the system again, Ukrenergo will be forced to return to blackout schedules.

Earlier, the head of the Department of Balance Reliability of the transmission system operator «Ukrenergo» Roman Hrabchak said that during the summer in Ukraine deficits in the energy system are expected, their peak may fall on July.