Since the end of March, the Ukrainian energy infrastructure has been hit by heavy, systematic Russian bombing and rocket fire, and we already wrote at the beginning of April that Ukrainian electricity imports from Hungary also picked up. Since then, this has also been significant in mid-April based on Ukrenergo’s Telegram messages, and today it announced that it needed emergency power imports.
Due to the damage caused by the Russian missile strikes, the power plants cannot produce enough electricity to cover the growing consumption
– the system operator justified the move. It also indicated that consumer demand had surged due to worsening weather conditions, so it continued to impose consumption restrictions for industrial consumers in the Dnipropetrovsk region and residents of the Kharkiv region.
Yesterday, Sunday, the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy first announced that, according to its plans, it could export electricity to a minimal extent during the day, but then in the evening hours (peak time) it received emergency help from Poland, Slovakia and Romania.
The news agency reminds about the “tug” on the Ukrainian electricity grid: the EU and Ukraine connected the grids after the Russian invasion, which also aims to pave the way for emergency assistance in the event of Russian attacks on critical infrastructure.
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