Two solar power plants were flooded in Mykolaiv region

Two solar power plants were flooded in Mykolaiv region
Katerina Belousova

Undermining the Kakhovskaya HPP may make it difficult to establish a stable electricity supply in the de-occupied territories

In the Mykolaiv Region, two solar power plants were flooded due to the explosion of the Kakhovskaya HPP.

The water also flooded the pumping station at the Kherson thermal power plant and damaged 129 transformer substations, the Ministry of Energy reports on Facebook.

In the message, it was said that about 20,000 consumers in the Kherson region were left without electricity. Despite all the challenges, the energy system of the country works stably. There is no shortage of electricity.

It is noted that the main capacities of the thermal power plant are currently outside the risk zone.

"Due to the undermining of the Kakhovskaya HPP, there may be difficulties in the future with the recovery and establishment of a stable electricity supply for consumers of the surrounding territories after their deoccupation," the press service emphasized.

The message added that the situation at the Zaporizhzhia NPP is constantly monitored by the experts of "Energoatom". There is currently no direct threat to the occupied power plant from the undermining of the Kakhovskaya HPP.

Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that PJSC ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih has suspended a number of steel production processes, in particular steel smelting and production of rolled products, as well as the operation of virtually all water-cooled equipment.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, on the night of June 6, the Russian occupiers blew up the dam at the Kakhovska HPP. The Committee on Environmental Policy and Nature Management stated that the blow-up of the dam at the Kakhovskaya HPP led to a man-made disaster and an extraordinary ecological situation, which has destruction with deep and irreversible changes in nature and ecowaste.

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