Ukraine could eschew regular power cuts by late March
Kyiv without electricity after a massive missile attack by Russia, November 20 (Photo:REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko)
If the current stabilizing scheduled power cuts work as intended throughout winter, Ukraine will be able to return to regular electricity supply in late March 2023, CEO of the largest consumer-facing energy provider YASNO, Serhiy Kovalenko, told Ukrainian TV broadcasters on Dec. 6.
That’s how Kovalenko described the company’s basic plan.
“It’s important to understand when we will abandon (power cut) schedules altogether and we have 100% electricity (demand satisfaction),” he said.
“Until the end of March, the base scenario for us is to live throughout the winter and the beginning of spring by following stabilization (power cut) schedules."
Kovalenko added that it is too early to talk about returning to stabilizing – as opposed to current emergency – power cut schedules throughout the country.
“We see that there is a limit in the generation (of electricity) across the country, and our colleagues still need time (to deal with that),” Kovalenko said.
On Dec. 5, Russia launched its eighth missile barrage against Ukraine’s power grid. Ukrainian air defenses managed to intercept 60 of 70 incoming cruise missiles.
Energy facilities Odesa, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, and Mykolaiv oblasts were hit.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moldova reported that a missile fell near the border town of Briceni.
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