Extreme heat is currently causing many problems in southern Russia. Air conditioning systems have driven daily electricity consumption in the world’s largest country to a record high, and a nuclear reactor has had to be shut down. Now, power consumption must be reduced.
Southern Russia and neighboring Ukraine have been experiencing the same heatwave as the Balkans and Mediterranean countries for days. It is currently 38 degrees in the city of Rostov, 34 degrees in Stavropol and 32 degrees in Sevastopol in Crimea. In Ukraine, power outages and shutdowns have been part of daily life for weeks, as attacker Russia has destroyed a large part of Ukraine’s power plants.
In Sevastopol, on the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula, the power was cut off for 12 hours a day. This means that there is always electricity for two hours and then no electricity for two hours…
Planned hourly shutdowns will also affect consumers in the Rostov region, as Governor Vasily Golubev wrote on Telegram. The problems were caused by the automatic shutdown of a reactor block at Russia’s Rostov nuclear power plant on Tuesday afternoon – but it turned out that there was no emergency.
However, the outage has left around 2.5 million people temporarily without power. The affected areas range from Krasnodar on the Black Sea coast to Dagestan on the Caspian Sea, hundreds of kilometres away.
Source: Krone
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