Manipulations are spreading on social media that power cuts in Ukraine, which had to be imposed as a result of Russian rocket attacks on energy facilities, are unfounded.

Allegedly, private entrepreneurs receive "surplus profits" from this and therefore turn off electricity to people on purpose. Cases of manipulation on the network drew the attention of the fact-checker of the NotaYenota project. According to data from DTEK, which fact-checkers managed to obtain, the losses occur not in the production of electricity, but in its distribution.

“There were minor damages at some of the TPPs that were quickly recovered. That is, we are talking about the fact that the same amount of electricity is produced as before the massive shelling of the infrastructure, but it is problematic to transfer it for consumption. Since the terrorist actions of Russia damaged critical facilities that transmit electricity from production stations to the place of consumption”, the message says. In addition, the distribution of electricity generated by nuclear, thermal or hydroelectric power plants is carried out in the network of NPC "Ukrenergo" (state-run enterprise) through high-voltage switchgear from 110 kV and above (150 kV, 220 kV, 330 kV, 750 kV) . Private regional distribution companies have networks and substations with a voltage class of up to 110 kV.

Their networks are designed to receive electricity from main networks with high voltage, convert this voltage to a level that consumers can accept (0.4 kV or 220 V) and directly transfer it to consumers. That is, government facilities were damaged. NPC "Ukrenergo" also performs the functions of the main dispatch center. The execution of any dispatcher commands for all other participants in the electricity market is mandatory. Under current conditions, all outages occur either as a result of accidents or at the command of the dispatcher (rolling outages).

This can be a drawn up proven schedule for some period of time (depending on the amount of capacity utilization and provision). In the current conditions, this is basically a given instruction, which is formed depending on the situation. Indeed, less electricity is used at night than during the day, but still this is too much for those lines that remained unscathed”, the fact checkers explain. They add that the delivery and use of electricity should go to zero: that is, how much is produced and how much is used. If 10 GW is produced, the same amount must be consumed. Today it is possible to deliver only a certain amount of electricity (it is not enough even for the less peak hours). So, throughout the day there are outages for balancing. However, it is beneficial for Russia to spread the manipulation that Ukraine is turning off the electricity to employees so that private companies can profit, and not because of Russia's criminal actions. Thus, Russia seeks to make itself not guilty and seeks to discredit the leaders of Ukraine. Like, they don't care about the conditions in which Ukrainians live.