Government has adopted a series of decisions to stabilise the situation in the energy system and ensure people have electricity: Yulia Svyrydenko

Continuous russian attacks have damaged generation facilities, networks, and transmission systems, resulting in a difficult situation in Ukraine’s energy system. In order to improve the stability of electricity supply to citizens, the Government has adopted a series of decisions:

1. Regional military administrations must, within two days, review the actual lists of critical infrastructure facilities.

At the same time, power cuts will not be applied to hospitals, schools, life-support facilities, or enterprises of the defence-industrial complex. Electricity supply to these facilities will remain uninterrupted.

Consumers that are not of critical importance for the functioning of regions under current conditions will be removed from the lists. The freed-up volumes of electricity will be redirected to household consumers.

Responsibility for monitoring the implementation of this decision has been assigned to the Ministry of Energy and the State Inspectorate for Energy Supervision.

2. Regional military administrations, local self-government bodies, and municipal enterprises have been instructed to ensure a reduction in non-essential consumption.

Additional illumination of buildings and streets, parks, decorative lights, and outdoor advertising in city centres are not priorities during the difficult situation in the energy sector.

However, streets and roads with a high accident rate must remain lit even under energy-saving conditions. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Police will determine the list of such sections.

The movement of people and road safety must be maintained.

Energy-saving measures do not apply to electricity produced by consumers’ own power-generation installations for their own needs.

3. The Ministry of Energy, the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development, the State Inspectorate for Energy Supervision, and regional military administrations have been instructed to ensure the full operation of distributed generation facilities – gas-piston and gas-turbine units, including cogeneration units, as well as diesel, petrol, and gas generators.

Any problems preventing the release of electricity into the grid must be resolved promptly. All available cogeneration units must be brought into operation. The necessary decisions were adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers last week.

4. The Government has permitted state-owned companies and companies with a state ownership share of 50% or more to import electricity.

This will reduce the load on the energy system and increase stability during peak hours. Imports will be carried out in coordination with NPC Ukrenergo.