Today, strict schedules of hourly power cuts for households have been approved for Kyiv: 12 hours of guaranteed outages, while power supply is guaranteed for just 4 hours.

Such a situation is difficult to explain solely by the shortage of capacities in the UES. The thing is that great many critical infrastructure facilities are located in Kyiv, working for the interests the state, which cannot be disconnected. This factor is disregarded by the methodology of the Ministry of Energy, that is why Kyiv has longer outages, compared to other regions: in some regions, guaranteed power cuts for households do not exceed 2–3 hours. However, Ukrenergo must impose regional limits in accordance with this methodology.

If everything remains as it is, in July, when seasonal consumption increases, and most nuclear units undergo planned repairs, the situation with the energy supply of Kyiv residents will worsen even more, and in the heating season it will be just critical. Meanwhile, even double tariffs will not significantly influence the schedules of hourly outages.

This can enhance social tension in the country and affect the military-political situation as a whole.

The government finally understood this problem, so, D. Shmyhal gave orders to improve the methodology of limits. In my opinion, limits for households should be set with account of the availability of national infrastructure in the region and the percentage of residents actually living in each region in the entire population of the country.

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