Thanks to the titanic work of energy workers, utility workers and emergency workers, the Lviv region has the opportunity to supply light, water and heat to every home, but there is not enough power in the energy system of Ukraine.
As noted by the head of the Lviv OVA, Maksym Kozytskyi, this is the result of a massive missile strike that the enemy launched across the country on November 23, as well as missile strikes in the following days, which, fortunately, bypassed the Lviv region.
All regions are powered by the same power system. Therefore, 50% of Lviv Oblast consumers can use electricity and water at the same time. There are no heat supply interruptions.
Maksym Kozytskyi answered the most common questions asked by residents of the region:
Why is everything lit up in the neighboring city/village/house across the street, but we have no light for the second day?
Shutdowns are being introduced everywhere. The exception is critical infrastructure facilities. These include medical facilities, CHP plants, pumping stations, military facilities, facilities that provide water supply, communications, servers, drug storage, and law enforcement agencies. 25% of Lvivoblenergo consumers belong to critical infrastructure facilities in Lviv Oblast. If the house is powered by the same line with such objects, the power supply in it will not be turned off either.
“And one more thing about the ‘house opposite’: let’s be honest, you’re not watching him 24/7. Often, just when the light was turned on, the house across the street is out of power, but you go about your business and don’t pay attention to it,” the head of the region emphasized.
Why schedules of scheduled outages do not correspond to reality?
There is one energy system in Ukraine. If the enemy fires at energy facilities in one region, the whole country suffers from this. It was the same yesterday: due to shelling in other regions, emergency shutdowns were forced to be implemented in the Lviv region. This means that the outage schedules are not in effect. Such situations cannot be forewarned in advance.
To know the current situation in our region, go to the official website of Lvivoblenergo in the section “Why is there no light?”.
Why can’t I call the Lvivoblenergo call center?
Live people also work in the call center. Keep this in mind when communicating with them. No one could predict that half of the region could be left without power, so the call center is not able to receive calls from everyone at the same time. But this is not a problem, because:
you can quickly get information about disconnection at your address on the Lvivoblenergo hotline on Facebook,
in chat bots in Viber and Telegram.
Whether to turn street lighting on or off is decided by the local government – the leadership of your city or village, not Lviv OVA or Lvivoblenergo.
It is up to the owners of these objects to turn on or off advertising, signboards and other decorations that illuminate privately owned objects during working hours. Here we can only count on the conscience of the owners.
But it is also necessary to understand that individual houses “light up” because they use alternative sources of energy (generators, batteries, etc.), and they are not always displayed in front of shops or restaurants so that we can say with confidence who feeds on what.
According to the order of Maksym Kozytskyi from October 21, a ban on the use of all types of outdoor lighting during the curfew is in force in the Lviv region, except for the lighting of the street and road network and critical infrastructure facilities. There is also a ban on the lighting of outdoor advertising placed on the facades of buildings and structures, special structures – after the end of business hours, regardless of the organizational and legal form. This ban applies to everyone. If you have information about the offenders, call the police.
If the state did not export electricity to the West, would we have light?
“If you write like this, you have become a victim of Russian propaganda. This fake has long been refuted. In fact, Ukraine has stopped exporting electricity to the European Union since October 11 – after a massive missile attack. Since that time, all the capacities of Ukrainian generation have been working exclusively for the needs of the residents of Ukraine,” noted the head of LOVA.
We will continue to have a capacity deficit in the country’s power system. Therefore, we cannot heal everyone at the same time.
“I appeal to everyone who has electricity at home: think about those without power. Refrain from using vacuum cleaners, microwaves, coffee makers, dishwashers and other powerful appliances. Use electricity only for urgent needs, so we will be able to feed a larger number of consumers at the same time,” he concluded.
If we don’t overload the system, energy workers will focus on repairing damaged facilities, which get more complicated with each subsequent missile attack.