"This fundamentally affects how many hours we'll be without light," said Oleg Popenko about winter weather.

This was shared by him on the program "Personality with Sergey Doiko".

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As the expert notes, in Ukraine today, the capacity of nuclear power plants continuously provides us with electricity. During peak load times, the available maneuvering capacities, which remain because most have been destroyed by Russian shelling, are added, along with imports. Thus, he states, we generally have enough generation to get through this period without outages.

“In the event of widespread destruction from full-scale shelling by the Russian Federation, outages may occur. It all depends on when these outages happen. I mean at a temperature of +5 or -10. This fundamentally affects how many hours we will be without power,” emphasizes Oleg Popenko.

Moreover, he adds, a week or two ago there were also outages due to shelling in the Kherson, Mykolaiv, Sumy, and Poltava regions. That is, the guest of the program asserts that everything will happen in a similar manner, but the temperature, which influences a lot, as well as the general region of Ukraine, comes into play.

“Again, we return to regional issues. If it’s a frontline area, there can indeed be outages lasting 16 or 18 hours. Central Ukraine has a different story, and in Western Ukraine, thanks to imports, outages will not be as widespread. Thus, conditionally, Ukraine can be divided into three regions,” explains Oleg Popenko.

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