It is not possible to guarantee that there will be no nationwide power outages in Ukraine. This was stated by the chief distributor of the Ukrenergo company, Vitaly Zaichenko, in an interview with the Ukrainian publication Economic Pravda.
“It is impossible to guarantee that there will be no power outages. “The attacks may be completely different, but if you take the risk of taking them out of the equation, then there is no risk of a large-scale systemic accident,” he said.
Before that the company “Ukrenergo” reported Approximately 850 powerless settlements in the country.
In the first half of 2023, according to Ukrenergo damaged almost 43% of major energy networks. In this context, the EU Council reportedUkraine was requested to double its electricity supply to the country.
In Ukraine in May offered doubling the price of electricity to bring it to market levels. This measure was: Done June 1.
An explosion had previously occurred in eastern Ukraine. damaged thermal power plant.