The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation disabled the power system of Ukraine: energy was told when a total collapse will come

The financial assistance of the event helps to repair damaged objects, but the process is extremely slow. Until the coming winter remained very little time, and only a hundred new high-voltage transformers have been ordered, writes The Economist with reference to Ukrainian officials and energy engineers. "The main parts of the energy objects are surrounded by sandbags to protect them from fragments, but in the case of direct hit, nothing can be done.

It is impractical to put high -voltage transformers in concrete, because they will overheat," - explained to reporters the director of one of the power plants, remembering November. last year. The authors of the material emphasize that Ukrainian engineers have found brilliant schemes of transfer of electricity and equipment in the country. Despite their efforts, from October 10 to the end of December 2022, the Medium Ukrainian Household did not electricity for about five weeks.

Energy Minister of Ukraine Herman Galushchenko states that the energy system is more vulnerable than last year. There are no excess capacity, and there is little spare equipment, the minister says. "The purchases of equipment are very slow. Ukraine is connected to the European power system and can import electricity if necessary.

Ukrainians have a rich experience in combating large -scale attacks, but the Russians also have made conclusions from the inability to destroy the whole system," Galushchenko comments. DTEK has produced about a quarter of Ukraine's electricity before the full -scale war, and now lost more than 20% of capacity, says The Economist Dmitry Sakharuk Executive Director. Cyberatics can be even more threatening than rockets and drones.

Successful attack paralyzes the whole system, which is much more dangerous than physical damage. According to the director of the Center for Economic Recovery, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Cyril Krivolap, the system is not 100%repaired and the safety margin is small. "Then winter helped us, we did not have time to strengthen. This season can technically be more difficult but lighter more morally.

Perhaps the Russian military has reserve line maps and they understand how the power grids switch. So they analyze and draw conclusions" , - he explained. Generation reserves and the state of energy objects should be checked in advance and not reported on the eve of the heating season, says Focus expert at the Institute of Energy Strategies Yuriy Korolchuk. "The electricity situation is reminiscent of eternal coal deficiency. Energy do what can and should be focused on 70-80%of readiness.

Heads of power companies, profile officials are forced to hide the real state of affairs because of objective military danger," he explained. According to Korolchuk, last winter the Russian military could not aim to destroy Ukraine's energy system. "Perhaps the purpose of the occupiers is to fail the power system on the bricks. The strikes were in substations, because if the generation objects were destroyed, there would .

Volodymyr Kudrytsky, the head of the State Company "Ukrenergo", stated in late September that the Ukrainian power system came out of 40-50%since last winter. "The passage of the heating season is somewhere in 95% depends on the shelling. The pessimistic scenario. The scale of rocket and drone attacks is such as last year. Great damage to networks and power plants. Possible malfunctions. , - said the head of the company. Kudrytsky says that the Cabinet approved the allocation of Ukrenergo 9.

7 billion hryvnias to protect the substation. But it turned out that money is still unavailable - all bureaucratic procedures must be performed to obtain them. "In parallel with attempts to receive budget financing we are trying to negotiate with international financial institutions on re-profiling of loans or receiving grant assistance for these purposes. It is about the same amount as from the budget-about $ 220-250 million . . .

We plan to complete the construction of defense structures to the cold ", - summarized the CEO. Recall that Ukrainian energy is working closely with the General Staff of the Armed Forces and the Government for the sake of establishing the protection of energy facilities. Ukrenergo has not yet prepared schedules of power outages. The Ministry of Social Policy proposes to prohibit electricity disconnected by vulnerable categories of Ukrainians.