Imports Unable to Cover Ukraine’s Power Shortage

The power shortages in Ukraine cannot be fully covered with power imports from neighbouring countries, DTEK CEO, Sergei Kovalenko, said, cited by Interfax.

• "We're experiencing a critical shortage of domestic power generation [...] So critical that even maximum possible imports cannot solve the problem. The shortage problem will be severe within the next six to eight weeks. Apart from the above mentioned lack of generation, growing consumption adds to the problem," Kovalenko said.
• The shortage is due to the destroyed generation capacity by Russian attacks, fluctuations in renewables generation and maintenance at nuclear facilities, he added.
• Energoatom recently started planned works at one 1GW nuclear reactor.
• The outlook for later this year does not significantly improve. Head of Ukraine’s grid operator Ukrenergo said earlier this month that the country would not be able to restore all damaged power generation capacity before the winter.
• The Ukrainian government is currently in talks to raise imports from Europe to 2.5GW – the country’s technical import capacity – for which is planning to make a decision by the upcoming winter.
• Russia has destroyed around 9GW of Ukraine’s power generation capacity since the start of March, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this month.