Khersonoblenergo electricity supply company PJSC has finished the construction of a 10 kV overhead line extending for 2 km to directly provide power to the company's consumers without using a part of the line located on Crimean territory, the company informed Interfax-Ukraine on Aug. 28.
Facilities that were occupied by Russian troops following Crimea’s annexation, particularly, a checkpoint on the peninsula, no longer receive power from Khersonoblenergo.
According to company’s press service, facilities on the occupied Crimean territory, which earlier received power from Khersonoblenergo, currently use diesel generators to get electricity.
As reported, the project for a by-pass line, the construction of which began on Aug. 22, was coordinated with the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry and the National Commission for State Energy Regulation of Ukraine.
Earlier, Khersonoblenergo noted that power supply of the checkpoint and other facilities located on occupied Crimean territory had to be kept working, as the overhead electric line used for that begins on mainland Ukraine and then spreads out to the occupied Crimean territory. Mine fields are located along the line, which eliminates access to it for company’s staff.
Then the line comes back to mainland Ukraine, where in addition to supplying power to Russian checkpoint, it’s also supplied to a number of Khersonoblenergo consumers, including a Ukrainian checkpoint, customs station and two two-storey residential buildings. Thus, cutting off the supply only to the facilities used by Russian troops was impossible without turning off the electricity for Ukrainian consumers.
Khersonoblenergo provides electricity in Kherson Oblast. A total of 94,51 percent of company’s shares belong to VS Energy group.
