On November 8, the Ukrenergo company applied emergency power cuts in the capital, as well as in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Kharkiv and Poltava regions. They last from 09:30 a.m. Kyiv time.
This was reported in the press service of the company.
The day before, they announced that on November 8, there will be no emergency shutdowns outside the schedule.
"Additional restrictions on consumption are necessary because, due to the cold weather, the consumption of electricity increases, which leads to an increase in the load on equipment and a shortage of electricity in the power system. There is a threat of accidents, no less complicated than those that occurred due to enemy shelling," Ukrenergo explained.
Planned schedules of hourly outages during the day are in effect throughout the territory of Ukraine. Ukrenergo once again urged Ukrainians to save electricity.
- Earlier, the director of the Energy Research Center Oleksandr Kharchenko said that Ukrainian energy companies need 3 to 5 weeks to return to a "comfortable level" after the Russian strikes. This is provided that the Russian troops do not launch new missile strikes.
- The United Energy System of Ukraine was subjected to massive missile attacks on October 10, 11, 17, 22 and November 2. Almost 40% of the energy infrastructure was damaged by shelling.