Flag of Ukraine on the building of the Verkhovna Rada in KievKIEV, Jan 25Ukraine on Tuesday asked Belarus for emergency assistance with the supply of electricity in order to save resources to ensure peak coverage in the future, Ukrenergo said in a statement. Belarus from 10.00 to 13.00 (11.00 to 14.00 Moscow time) in the amount of 450 MW per hour; «/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/d919ab0649571084b4c9223c8829613f.jpg» />Lukashenka said that the situation on the southern borders of the country is becoming more complicated. «The request for emergency assistance is not related to the lack of power reserves in the energy system, but is necessary to save the reserves available today and ensure sustainable coverage of consumption peaks in subsequent periods,» the company said in a statement.Earlier The head of the Ministry of Energy German Galushchenko said that one power unit at the Khmelnytsky NPP and one at the Zaporozhye NPP were taken out of operation for short-term repairs on Tuesday, now 12 out of 15 power units are operating at all nuclear power plants in Ukraine, despite this, according to him, the energy system is balanced. Galushchenko noted that the short-term repair of the withdrawn power units will be completed within one or two days, after which they will be connected to the system. The Minister added that the 15th power unit will also be put into operation by the end of this week, then all 15 power units will operate in the energy system. In total, there are four nuclear power plants in Ukraine with 15 power units (all with VVER reactors), one of which is the Zaporozhye NPP with six power units with a total installed capacity of 6000 MW, the largest in Europe. In terms of the number of power reactors, Ukraine ranks tenth in the world and fifth in Europe.
