With the cold weather, the shortage of electricity will increase even more.
will increase from the current 1-1.5 million kW to 2-3 million kW and above. Under such circumstances, it is impossible to avoid power outages for 10-12 hours every day, journalist Ihor Maskalevich writes in his material for ZN.UA “Energy terror and how to survive it”.
“Prognoses cutting off electricity for 10-12 hours a day during severe frosts is not the most severe, but the most realistic scenario. It will have to be endured,” the author notes.
In the capital, new buildings on the left bank of the Dnieper will be the most vulnerable: on the right bank of the city there are quite a few relatively small boiler houses, but on the left bank the systems are much more concentrated and, accordingly, more vulnerable .
Accordingly, the biggest challenge for cities will be the threat of freezing water supply and sewage systems. The journalist emphasizes that it is now necessary to assess vulnerable nodes and think about how to prevent them from freezing with the arrival of negative temperatures.
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The day before, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that Ukraine has accumulated sufficient volumes of gas and coal to provide Ukrainians with heat in winter. However, during power outages, the pumps that circulate the heat supply system in cities also do not work.
