For more than 3 months, the Russian invaders have been using methods of terror and firing drones and missiles at the energy and critical infrastructure of Ukraine. In order to balance the power system in such conditions, power engineers are forced to resort to power cuts to industrial and residential consumers.
At the same time, almost simultaneously with the appearance of blackout schedules, reports began to appear that the power was turned off not because of critical damage, but in connection with the sale of electricity to Europe. To dot the i’s in these accusations, DeepState analysts checked the information on the transmission of electricity from Ukraine to Europe and vice versa.
“We have built into a single table all the data on the physical flow of electricity flows across the borders with Hungary, Slovakia, Moldova and Romania. The table includes the total hourly figure for the export and import of electricity across the border in the period from 00:00 01/18/23 to 00:00 01/23/23. The source is ENTSO-E Transparency Platform, the transparency and open data platform of ENTSO, the European network of electricity transmission system operators,” DeepState analysts say.
Putting this data together, the analysts drew up a chart. It shows the export of electricity abroad in red, and the blue color indicates import from abroad to Ukraine. The yellow line shows the absolute difference between imports and exports.
The graph clearly demonstrates that there were no “crazy sales of electricity in hundreds of thousands of megawatts to Europe” occurred. Moreover, Ukraine imports more energy than it exports. During the specified period of time, Ukraine exported 98,242 MW, and imported 108,490 MW. That is, Ukraine actually purchased 10,248 MW more electricity.
It should be explained that energy constantly flows over the boundary in both directions. This is how one of the mechanisms for compensating the deficit and covering peak consumption works.
“That is, Europe helps our energy system balance by taking, transporting and returning electricity to us when we need it,” DeepState notes.
