NPC Ukrenergo reports on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.
"As a result of Russian attacks on energy infrastructure facilities, there are new de-energizations in the morning in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Sumy and Zaporizhzhia regions. Wherever safe conditions currently allow, emergency recovery work is already underway, "the report said.
In addition, in some regions, capacity limitation schedules for industry and schedules of hourly outages (up to 3 queues) for all categories of consumers are forced to be applied throughout the day.
Electricity consumption as of 09:30 Thursday is 5.5% less than the level of the previous day. The reasons for the changes are an increase in the volume of forced outages in several regions of Ukraine.
The power system operator advises to postpone the use of powerful electrical appliances for the period of the most efficient operation of industrial solar power plants – from 11:00 to 15:00 and asks not to turn on at the same time from 17:00 to 22:00.