Ukraine lacks up to 9 GW of power capacity; grid overload was already threefold before the war – expert
Ukraine is short of approximately 9 gigawatts of electricity to cover the deficit. But this situation arose not only during the Second World War, but before it.
Housing and utilities expert Oleg Popenko stated this on air during a broadcast of political scientist Yuri Romanenko, who is wanted in Russia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the expert, in the country's major cities, the load on power grids and transformers is three to four times higher than normal.
“ Before the frost, our electricity deficit was 7 megawatts, and during the frost, this figure could reach 9 megawatts of capacity, which is what we need…
We need to survive these cold snaps so that the energy system can withstand them. We see all the problems we have with the energy sector, not only management-related but also technical.
Let's be honest, we had constant problems with power outages in a number of rural regions, even before the full-scale invasion, when the temperature was -10, -15.
" We have three to four times more overload at transformer substations in regions like Lviv, Kyiv, and Odesa. The same is true for the grid ," Popenko stated.
Ukraine lacks up to 9 GW of power capacity; grid overload was already threefold before the war – expert