The Ukrainian state-run national energy company Ukrenergo completed at about 11 p.m. on Nov. 30 the repair of the 220 KW Kakhovka-Tytan power transmission line connecting elevated power wires with insulator kits, Kherson Regional Administration said on Nov. 30 morning with reference to head of the Ukrenergo information policy directorate Zynoviy Butsio.
However, in order to connect the power line to Crimea to the power grid an agreement with protesters is needed, the statement said.
“This is not the connection of the power line to the power grid, we are only preparing it for power supply. If it is decided to deliver electricity, a few hours will be needed, notwithstanding the time taken to get to the place of works to connect it,” the press release quoted Butsio as saying.
He said that upon the demand of protesters the line loops were removed and the wire rupture was made visible so that participants in the action saw that electricity could not be supplied.
Butsio said that the repair was completed after Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Volodymyr Demchyshyn and the Ukrenergo leadership held a meeting with leaders of the action for food and energy blockade of Crimea in Kyiv on Nov. 29.
As it was reported, the repair crew of the Ukrenergo national energy company, which has been restoring the 220 KW Kakhovka-Tytan power transmission line, stopped working upon the demand of activists of the Crimean energy blockage at 10 a.m. Nov. 26.
