Will there be light in winter: DTEK explained why everything depends not only on the Russians

With the onset of the autumn and winter period, many Ukrainians are even more worried about possible shutdowns in winter, because the Russians do not leave attempts to finally disable the Ukrainian power system. However, citizens should worry not only because of the shelling of the invaders. Last winter, Russia destroyed the Ukrainian energy system with drones and missiles to leave Ukrainians without heat and light.

Much of the power facilities were damaged or destroyed by the occupiers, so energy was forced to introduce fan shutdowns for consumers, as the energy system did not cope with additional loads during cold. Therefore, in the new heating season, Ukrainians should hope for the lack of frost, because the weather will influence whether light will be in the homes of citizens. Sergey Kovalenko, CEO of Yasno, said this in an interview with DTEK.

"Every 5 degrees frost increases electricity consumption by 200 MW. That is, the city consumes more electricity, and the load on the power system is increasing," he said. According to him, the past winter seemed difficult, but without severe frosts. "Yes, at night it could be up to -12, but in the afternoon the air temperature rising to -2 or +3 degrees. But there were no such long periods with frost. It is important, because in winter it is necessary to be afraid not of light shutdowns.

Yes, it is difficult, unusual, unusual, unusual, unusual. But you can live. But without heat, the house will just freeze and everything, "he explained. Kovalenko also noted that before the full -scale invasion of Ukraine was a surplus state - produced more electricity than the population consumed. But in the first days of the war, our country lost its large generation. "Therefore, even without shelling we have in some months when it was very cold or very hot, we were not enough electricity.

Because consumption was growing, and we have become a scarce state through the war. In the last heating season, we lost a lot of generating objects" , - said Sergey Kovalenko. It should be noted that according to the director of the Center for Energy Research Alexander Kharchenko, winter 2023-2023 will be very difficult, since the equipment destroyed last winter cannot be restored in the year. Therefore, Ukrainians should buy generators and Paverbanka in order to prepare for possible blackouts.