In Ukraine, new principles of application of hourly blackout schedules for the population are being introduced, according to the Instruction of the Ministry of Energy. The changes concern not only the general rules, but also the division of shutdown queues into two sub-queues, which will allow more accurate and even distribution of restrictions between different regions.
This was reported by "Ukrenergo", which explained the main aspects of the changes. In particular, if the system can be balanced without disconnecting the entire queue of consumers, dispatchers can give the command to disconnect only half of the queue. If this is not enough, you can turn off even 2.5 queues to achieve the desired effect.
According to the new rules, the blackout can last no more than 30 minutes, after which there must be a recovery period. This norm was introduced in order to make the process of disconnections and restoration of energy supply more controllable and predictable for consumers.
According to the new Instruction, hourly shutdown schedules will now be unified in all regions of Ukraine. Each group of consumers will receive a clearly defined time for disconnection, which takes into account a fair distribution according to the criteria day/night, weekday/weekend. However, since it is not possible to completely equalize the duration of outages for each group during the day, the final equalization will be carried out based on the results of the week.
Outages will affect not only household consumers, but also industrial enterprises. Improved control of power limit schedules for business. If enterprises do not comply with the command to apply restrictions, oblenergo will apply emergency shutdown schedules for such consumers, and operators of trunk networks - for consumers connected to them.
Changes in outage schedules are already being implemented at the level of all operators of the distribution system. Updated schedules can be found on the official resources of Oblenergo. Consumers should stay tuned to know the exact timing of outages.
