There may be outages in Crimea during the night from Dec. 31 to Jan. 1 but they will be brief, the regional governor, Sergei Aksyonov, warned on Dec.27 .
“Even if there are any power cuts, they’ll be balanced out: for a
short time in each district. There will no more be situations such as
what happened yesterday when people had no electricity for between eight
and 10 hours,” Sergei Aksyonov told reporters in Symferopil.
He accused Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov’s DTEK Krymenergo generating company of departing from an outages schedule.
“Krymenergo failed to follow my instructions and the instructions of
the government on balanced outages. There was an imbalance: some people
had no electricity for between eight and 10 hours while others had no
power cuts at all,” he said.
Aksyonov said there had only been outages in areas that could be
automatically disconnected from the mains. “Nobody went to places where a
team would have had to go and switch off [electricity] and than switch
it back on. We will take organizational measures against people who fail
to carry out government decisions,” he said.
All electricity supply from Ukraine to Crimea was cut off without warning for several hours on Dec. 24 and 26.
Crimea receives about 400 megawatts of electricity from Ukraine, which is about half of what the region needs.
