Electricity consumption in Ukraine has significantly decreased, but we need to save during peak hours
14 April 11:48
On Monday, April 14, electricity consumption in Ukraine dropped dramatically, Komersant ukrainskyi reports, citing a statement from Ukrenergo.
“Electricity consumption has decreased. Today, April 14, as of 9:30 a.m., it was 18% lower than on the previous business day, Friday. The reason is a significant warming throughout Ukraine. It is also due to clear weather in most regions, which leads to high efficiency of household solar power plants and a corresponding decrease in energy consumption from the general grid,”
– ukrenergo reported.
However, despite this, there is a need to shift active energy consumption to the period of the most efficient operation of solar power plants, according to Ukrenergo:
“Today there is a need to shift active energy consumption to the daytime – from 10:00 to 17:00. Please use powerful electrical appliances during this period.”
They also added that the Ukrainian power system continues to recover from Russian massive missile and drone attacks, and emergency repair work at power facilities continues.
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The situation in the Ukrainian energy sector
In 2024, Russia carried out regular massive attacks on the Ukrainian energy sector. For example, on March 22, 2024, Russia carried out one of the most massive attacks in the entire period of the full-scale war. In particular, Dniproges and other Ukrainian energy facilities were hit. Since then, Russia has been regularly shelling Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
The Russians destroyed the Trypillia and Zmiiv thermal power plants, causing Centrenergo to lose 100% of its generation. Also, 5 of DTEK’s 6 thermal power plants were heavily damaged.
After that, power outages started again in Ukraine, and the government raised the electricity tariff by 60% at once.
In this situation, the Cabinet of Ministers decided to build two new units at the Khmelnytsky N PP and has already received the approval of the relevant parliamentary committee. The Razumkov Center has criticized these plans, but some experts believe that only traitors or scoundrels are against the construction of nuclear power plants today.
Russia launched another massive attack on the Ukrainian energy sector on August 26. This time, they hit distribution and power generation systems, and the Kyiv hydroelectric power plant was also attacked.
Russia carried out the most massive shelling of Ukraine on November 17, 2024, firing 127 cruise, ballistic, and supersonic missiles and 109 attack drones. DTEK reported serious damage to its thermal power plants.
After that, some experts predicted that blackouts could last until spring. And the Center for Countering Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine voiced the worst-case scenario, which envisaged blackouts of up to 20 hours a day.
However, these predictions turned out to be wrong. Ukraine quickly coped with the consequences of the November shelling and went through the winter without massive power outages.
