The emergency
situation has been effective in Crimea since November 22, when all four power
supply lines bringing electricity from neighboring Ukraine went dead
SIMFEROPOL, January 8. /TASS/. State of emergency in Russia’s Crimea, introduced due to energy shortages last November, will stay effective at least till May 1, 2016, the republic’s leader, Sergey Aksyonov, said at a meeting of the crisis management centre on Thursday.
"The crisis management centre will keep working up to the last day of the emergency situation, at least till May 1. All should stay at their work places," Aksyonov told local officials as he reviewed the immediate tasks facing the local authorities.
SIMFEROPOL, January 8. /TASS/. State of emergency in Russia’s Crimea, introduced due to energy shortages last November, will stay effective at least till May 1, 2016, the republic’s leader, Sergey Aksyonov, said at a meeting of the crisis management centre on Thursday.
"The crisis management centre will keep working up to the last day of the emergency situation, at least till May 1. All should stay at their work places," Aksyonov told local officials as he reviewed the immediate tasks facing the local authorities.
Aksyonov
said the timetables of rolling blackouts would have to be polished to
perfection without delay. All boiler rooms are to receive power supply on the
permanent basis to keep temperatures inside apartment buildings at the proper
level. All municipalities are obliged to present by January 10 the schedules
local industries and businesses will have to stick to amid power shortages.
As the head
of Crimea’s Emergencies Ministry, Sergey Shakhov, has said, the peninsula was
getting 933 megawatts of electricity, including 400 megawatts via two
high-voltage power cables laid under the Kerch Strait from mainland Russia’s
Krasnodar Territory. The available power supply is capable of meeting 85% of
the demand.
"There
are no communities where electricity is utterly unavailable," he said.
The
emergency situation has been effective in Crimea since November 22, when all
four power supply lines bringing electricity from neighboring Ukraine went dead
as a result of acts of sabotage in the neighboring country. The situation improved
somewhat when on December 2 the first power cable was laid to Crimea from the
Krasnodar Territory of Russia and on December 15 another one doubled the
lifeline’s capacity to 400 megawatts. Two more such cables will be commissioned
next spring to make Crimea completely independent from Ukrainian electricity.
Source: ITAR-TASS 08-01-2016
Source: ITAR-TASS 08-01-2016
