Ukraine may have to reintroduce scheduled rolling
blackouts this summer if Russia continues its large-scale attacks on
Ukrainian energy infrastructure, the Energy Ministry warned on April 12. The
schedules for such emergency power cuts have been drawn up in late 2023.
According to Deputy Energy Minister Svitlana Grynchuk, electricity consumption is expected to rise in the summer due to hot weather, which leads to increased usage of cooling systems.
“Predicting the outages now is very difficult because we experience mass attacks nearly every day, resulting in additional damage,” Grynchuk told RFE/RL.
“If these continue, of course, we can realistically face limitations [of electricity consumption].”
She added that if scheduled blackouts become necessary, the ministry will attempt to provide consumers with electricity on a predictable basis.