The spring weather allows the majority of Ukrainian consumers to be supplied with electricity, despite the devastating effects of enemy shelling on the national critical infrastructure, but longer power outages are possible in the summer.
This is stated in the material of Apostrophe.
"If active and passive protection of energy facilities had not been set up and the Ukrainian grid had not been synchronized with the European one, the consequences of the attacks could have been much more severe," energy analyst Maksym Bilyavsky said in a commentary to the publication. - "Certain restrictions on the consumption of electricity are currently in place and may last until the restoration works that have already begun at a number of facilities are completed. At other facilities, they will start as soon as the SES (State Emergency Service) units finish their work."
The warm weather that is currently prevailing in most of Ukraine makes it possible to avoid blackouts.
"It's not so cold that people are turning on heaters en masse, and it's not so hot that air conditioners are turning on. That's why the demand for energy is moderate," Bohdan Serebrennikov, Deputy Research Director at DiXi Group, explained in an interview with Apostrophe.
However, if consumption during peak hours increases, there may be a need for more significant power outages. Most likely, they will affect mostly industrial enterprises and will be regional. In particular, they will be applied in Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipro, and Kryvyi Rih.
Earlier we reported that Russia's missile strikes caused power outages in Ukraine.