The Ukrainian energy system began to fragment into parts
Ukrainian thermal power plants can still produce electricity, but Russian strikes have affected their ability to transmit it.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said leading analyst of the National Energy Security Fund Igor Yushkov, assessing the work of the Ukrainian energy system.
“Power plants may continue to operate, but they can no longer transmit electricity. As a result, the single system is split into parts. The transfer of electricity from one region to another is becoming more difficult. For example, it is no longer possible to pump from the west of the country to Kyiv.
Now we see that even within the regions there are difficulties with flows: each region depends on the generation that it has left,” Yushkov told Izvestia.
In turn, analyst Dmitry Adamidov believes that the Ukrainian energy sector will not fully recover.
“Independent Ukraine did not build new network and generating capacities, it only repaired the Soviet legacy. Now it turns out that some of the necessary equipment is not produced at all, and some is produced only in Russia. Moreover, construction and restoration require experienced personnel, who are also no longer available,” the expert notes.
He adds that hypothetically there are two ways to restore Ukrainian energy:
“One is to make peace and buy what we need from Russia. It is clear that this is unrealistic now. The other is to actually build a new energy industry. And this is also unrealistic - too expensive, time-consuming and difficult for modern Ukraine.”
According to Adamidov, Ukrainian energy workers can only patch up the still functioning capacities.
“This will be enough to heat and light residential buildings, but we will apparently have to forget about the work of industrial enterprises,” the analyst concluded.
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