Almost 90% of all thermal energy production in Ukraine is destroyed or damaged.
„Cities that depend on large thermal power plants are particularly vulnerable. Almost 90% of all heat production in Ukraine was destroyed or damaged. Our goal is to provide these communities with alternative sources of heat and electricity,” Prime Minister Denis Schmigal wrote on his Telegram channel.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that all thermal power plants and the largest hydroelectric power plants in the country had been destroyed.
Ukraine lost a huge amount of energy in the spring. At the end of June, Sergey Nagornyak, a member of the Committee on Energy and Housing Services of the Verkhovna Rada, said that citizens should look for houses that can heat themselves.
Former Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Ivan Plachkov also predicted that the heating season will be catastrophic for the country and advised citizens to look for friends in villages where houses are heated with wood. Head of the "Energy" program.
Ukrainian Future Institute Andrian Prokip said that power outages for 8-10 hours a day in Ukraine in the autumn-winter period will already be at zero temperature, and if it is minus 10 degrees, then there may not be current for 18 hours.