Preventive blackouts — Yasno named the reason — Ukraine
These measures are necessary to avoid damage to the equipment, since stopping part of the network creates excess energy.
On Tuesday, November 11, preventive power outages were again introduced in Kyiv due to the threat of Russian missile attacks.
This was announced by the CEO of Yasno Serhiy Kovalenko.
He explained that such events were “classics of the genre” as early as 2023. Kovalenko emphasized that any shutdown of a network link creates an excess of electricity, which leads to short circuits and damage to equipment at stations or substations. To avoid this, it is necessary to reduce the amount of energy production, but currently the thermal power plants damaged by shelling are limited in their maneuverability.
“The shelling in the summer hit the thermal generation very hard, so sometimes we have to maneuver with the help of other objects,…
