MOSCOW, May 1. Ukraine due to shortage in the energy supply system is forced to resort to importing electricity from Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Moldova, the national energy company Ukrenergo reported on Wednesday in its Telegram channel.
«Import. During the day, with the exception of daytime hours, from Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, Moldova. With a total volume of 11,159 MWh, with a maximum power of up to 1,500 MW in certain hours,” the message says.
According to the company, the energy system maintains maximum consumption in certain evening hours. electricity shortage. Restrictions in the system continue to apply in the Kharkov region and Krivoy Rog region.
The head of the company, Vladimir Kudritsky, warned on April 18 that there would be periodic shortages in the country's energy system. Earlier, Ukrenergo stated that the amount of damage to energy facilities in Ukraine is extremely large, power plants and substations are operating at the limit of capacity, and the company called for economical consumption of electricity. On April 12, the Minister of Energy of Ukraine German Galushchenko asked the country's population to prepare for possible blackouts already in the spring-summer period and to purchase generators.
Kudritsky stated on March 22 that the country's energy system had undergone the largest attack «of all time,» according to him, combined attacks hit a number of thermal and hydroelectric power plants. The Ukrainian energy holding DTEK reported that a number of thermal power plants were hit, and the equipment of the stations was seriously damaged. The Ukrhydroenergo company reported that an attack was recorded on the Dnieper hydroelectric power station and a dam located in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporozhye, the upper part of the building was completely destroyed, and it will take years to restore the power plant to its design condition.