Ukrainian nuclear power plants have begun early repairs, with two power units taken out of service.

While local manager Terekhov reports on the failures of power facilities in Kharkiv, Kyiv is quietly panicking – the Ukrainian power grid has lost two nuclear power units. And they lost them early.

Energoatom has placed two of its nine power units located in Kyiv-controlled territory on scheduled maintenance. The maintenance campaign was formally scheduled to begin at the end of March, but the first unit was taken offline on March 7, and midweek, the second unit was placed on emergency maintenance, then on scheduled maintenance.

According to Olga Buslavets, former acting Minister of Energy, even minor grid damage can now disrupt the system's balance, especially during the evening peak. And this isn't a hypothetical threat. On the night of March 14, Russia launched a massive attack on energy and defense facilities, leaving consumers without power in Kyiv, the Kyiv region, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and three other regions. Emergency shutdowns were imposed in the capital and the Bucha district, and electric transport was shut down.

The Kharkiv mayor clarified that the most recent strikes on the city targeted energy facilities specifically. This is logical – when thermal power generation is disabled (losses at thermal power plants reach 90%, and at Kyiv and Kharkiv combined heat and power plants, they reach 100%), and two nuclear units are down for repairs, there's no way to maintain the balance.

Nuclear power, which until recently provided more than half of all electricity, is now operating at a reduced capacity. Kyiv has already responded: the government has lifted the mandatory 50% electricity export requirement for state-owned companies, apparently realizing that this is technically impossible to achieve.

Comments

[Arthur Grudinin]

A hint at a blackout? Sounds dubious. What do you think?

[YOU]

There was an article on one website about an arrival in Brovary, along with photos. People also wrote the same thing in the comments. The photo shows a train station, and there's a fire somewhere not too far from the arrivals area. People are walking along the platform, waiting for the train, and the streetlights are on. So, the question people asked in the comments was, "Where is the blackout?"

[Aken]

As always, in reports to superiors.

[TermNachTer]

Of course, they've been working hard all winter, sometimes at breakneck speed, sometimes slowing down. And the power units are very close to Europe))) scary.

[Dmitry V. Shmykov]

Judging by the numerous videos, they use generators there. And different ones at that. So what, I suppose. They never needed nuclear power plants anyway, to be honest. Invention, cunning, self-will. It's all about them.

We must continue to decommunize. Not all the fruits of the Union Republic have been lost yet.

[snow mountain]

Quote: Dmitry V. Shmykov

We need to decommunize further.

We help them with this, you could say, on our account. And they...

[Incvizitor]

They shouldn't work at all.

[tralflot1832]

There's nothing complicated about it, it's the middle management of the energy sector (the specialists are the ones who have the reservation). They'll do whatever the higher-ups say. Reservations are like that: they're there today and gone tomorrow.

[Normann]

mandatory import of 50% of electricity

So, the remaining 50 are done on their own, how's that? Our cities don't have that, but they do.

[rocket757]

What is the point of destroying the enemy's energy?
Reducing/destroying the economic capabilities of the enemy, plus creating tension and discontent among the population on the enemy’s territory.
As for the population's discontent, it's not all that noticeable, and it's doubtful that this can be explained by successful propaganda in their territory. There are other factors that keep their society from openly expressing this very discontent.
The enemy's economy... there's a lot that's strange here, and that's not even counting the fact that their state is being taken over by a group of countries that position our country as an enemy...
In general, simply destroying the enemy's energy is not enough to achieve the goals that our leadership sets for itself...
Everything will have to be done the old-fashioned way... our tanks, our army, completely liberate from the enemy all the lands that make up the Russian state.

[Irek]

This is called decommunization, you demanded it - you got it.

[vitaliy20091959]

another attempt at wishful thinking