Crimean authorities warn of possible power outages in fall and winter season
Sergey Bazhan, the Kremlin-controlled Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy of the Peninsula reported that the Crimea might need to endure electricity cuts during the autumn-winter period, according to approved schedules.
“We predict that during the autumn-winter period, the Crimea and Sevastopol will consume 1,467 MW of electricity. 1,181 MW will pass on to the other parts of the peninsula while 286 MW will go to Sevastopol. Last year, the highest level of evening electricity consumption for the past five years was 1,456 MW. So, taking into account the development trends of the Crimea in all economic spheres, a temporary outages schedule will be developed,” said Bazhan, according to Crimean News.
The deputy minister stressed that all schedules would be coordinated by Krymenergo and that the shutdown volume would top off at 360 MW. The website of the Russian Ministry of Fuel and Energy and Krymenergo do not have information on the power outages during the autumn-winter period.
Krymenergo has recently appealed to the residents of the annexed peninsula with the request to save electricity in the evening, the hours of greatest loads on the power grid.
Despite the start of the third line of the Russian energy bridge in the spring of 2016, Russian-annexed Crimea continues to experience electricity cuts. Since December 2015, the supply of electricity from the mainland of Ukraine to the Crimea had been halted because of the electric pylon damage in the Kherson region. Now the Crimea is supplied by its own power generation, by generator sets from Russia and by the electricity bridge from Kuban.