“The company warns that outages may be corrected during the day if Ukrenergo updates the commands”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Odeszine: tomorrow from 06:00 we will return to the blackout schedules. The situation in the Odesa region allows us to return to the schedules of stabilization shutdowns,” the message says.
Consumers were divided into six groups. According to the preliminary schedule of DTEK, depending on the group, the light will be absent for 2-4 hours once or twice a day.
The company warns that outages can be corrected during the day, if the operator “Ukrenergo” updates the commands according to the situation in the power system.
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On the morning of November 17, “Ukrenergo” introduced emergency blackouts in the Odesa region after another massive Russian air attack.
On the night of November 17, Russian troops launched a massive combined attack on the facilities of the energy sector of Ukraine, using, according to the Air Force of the Armed Forces, 120 missiles and 90 unmanned aerial vehicles.
According to the Ministry of Energy, since October 2022, Russia has carried out more than a thousand strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities, this year alone 9 GW of generating capacity was lost due to strikes.
Earlier, the Minister of Energy Herman Galushchenko stated that Ukraine is able to go through the winter of 2024-2025 without power outages, if the forces of the Russian Federation do not succeed in destroying the critical energy infrastructure facilities that survived the previous attacks.