Power Lost at the Zaporizhzhia NPP

As a result of an armed attack by the invaders on the Zaporozhia NPP, 1.3 GW of capacity generated by nuclear units has been lost.

However, through the efforts of the central dispatcher and thermal generation, it has been possible to maintain power supplies. To that end, DTEK has activated an additional nine power units of its thermal power plants to compensate for the power lost at the Zaporizhzhia NPP.

“As of the morning of Friday 4 March, additional commands were received to turn on nine units to compensate for the capacities of nuclear units outside the schedule. DTEK now has 23 TPP power units were in operation instead of the planned 14,” the press service of DTEK has reported.

DTEK emphasised that all the company’s TPPs have the necessary coal, with all coal mines continuing to operate normally to provide fuel for thermal generation. DTEK remains ready to follow all the dispatcher’s instructions to ensure the stability of the energy system.

Ukraine’s power engineers published an appeal to Russia’s power engineers.

“We send you photo summaries of the day before. These were our colleagues who with their bare hands stopped tanks from your country in the city of Energodar, in the very South-East of Ukraine. The military was not allowed into the satellite city of the Zaporizhzhya NPP and the local thermal power plant. And this emergency brigade is raising footings in the field, where shells of heavy artillery and tanks were exploding 40 minutes earlier. And this is a substation destroyed by shelling, which our colleagues are restoring in order to bring back power to dozens of cities and towns. This is what this war looks like to us. War for the right to live and work on our land.

We are not complaining complain. Not at all. It’s not in our nature – you know. Today we turn to you, to the same people and professionals. We perfectly understand that the electricity produced by you was refracted for you through the ugly matrices of TV screens and sowed hatred and contempt for us, for freedom, truth, for anything for the sake of money and power.

We are power engineers! We chose to provide people with heat and electricity to be our life credo. Our work is the basis of the economy and well-being. We are confident that you are able to stop your government, which unleashed this criminal war.

Our victory will give you a chance to gain freedom and return to the civilized world.”