Due to an accident at the equipment of the transmission system operator NPC Ukrenergo, more than 30,000 consumers lost power, and emergency outage schedules were activated.

STATE OF THE GRID

Emergency situations continue in the grid of the transmission system operator NPC Ukrenergo in Odesa region. Yesterday, due to an overload of an autotransformer at 330 kV substation, more than 30,000 consumers in Odesa region were temporarily cut off from electricity supply. Emergency outage schedules were activated. All consumers were reconnected within a few hours.

The outages were caused by an emergency at another 330 kV substation the day before, namely unreliable operation and overloading of the backup power lines involved.

POWER GENERATION

The electricity generated by Ukrainian power plants is fully sufficient to meet the needs of consumers. There is no shortage.

SITUATION IN THE FRONTLINE REGIONS

Enemy terror in the frontline and border regions with russia continues. Some consumers in Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv regions are still without electricity. Repair crews are working where the security situation allows.

CONSEQUENCES OF THE KAKHOVKA HPP DAM BLOW-UP

Efforts are underway to record and eliminate the consequences of the flood caused by the dam blast. In Kherson, more than 150 consumers who were cut off due to flooding have been reconnected. The city still has 11,700 customers without power.

Power engineers are working to restore power supply. Restoration work is slowed down, in particular, due to constant hostile shelling.

SITUATION AT THE ZNPP

Yesterday, despite the requirements of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine and Energoatom, power unit 4 was put on “hot shutdown” at the temporarily occupied NPP, which is a gross violation of the requirements of the licence to operate this nuclear facility. After the dam of the Kakhovka HPP was blown up and the water level in the Kakhovka reservoir dropped critically, this creates additional risks for the plant’s water supply from the cooling pond and, accordingly, for the safe operation of the plant’s equipment.

Currently, a slight decrease in the water level in the cooling pond is recorded. It is now at 16.34 metres. So far, this is sufficient to meet the needs of the plant.