Power outages may stop as early as next week: Ukrenergo has named a condition
Kyiv • UNN
The CEO of Ukrenergo predicts that power outages may end next week due to the heat wave and the commissioning of new power units. He also spoke about the effectiveness of protective structures at the company's facilities.
In the absence of force majeure, it will probably be possible to avoid power outages next week. Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, Chairman of the Board of NPC Ukrenergo, said this on Hromadske Radio, UNN reports.
As long as the heat wave persists (fortunately, it looks like it won't last very long), there will be certain shortage hours during each day, each working day. As you can see, these are mostly evening hours, when consumption is highest. And in such evening hours, one or two rounds of blackouts may be applied. At the end of the week, we expect that a certain decrease in the heat, as well as the commissioning of additional power units at certain power plants, will allow us to compensate for the deficit. And let's hope that next week we will be able to avoid blackouts
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Another topic discussed on the air was the cost and effectiveness of protective structures at Ukrenergo's facilities. As a reminder, the day before, the cost estimates for the main materials for the protection of high-voltage substations were made public. Volodymyr Kudrytskyi noted the effectiveness of the measures already taken and emphasized that Ukrenergo did not use a single penny of budget funds for the construction of protective structures, attracting international assistance for this purpose.
"Many critical infrastructure facilities have perimeter protection built around them. This protection consists of big bags or gabions filled with sand, which protect such facilities from debris - if, for example, a missile or some other munition explodes at a certain distance from the equipment. Our protection is designed to protect critical equipment from a direct hit, because, unfortunately, Shahids can be quite accurate, and it is impossible to do with just first-level protection. That is why these are rather large structures, each of which takes more than two thousand cubic meters of concrete, hundreds of tons of reinforcement and metal floor beams," said Volodymyr Kudrytskyi.
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