Scheduled power outages applied in all of Ukraine except for several western regions on Tuesday

MOSCOW. Nov 19 (Interfax) - Several regional power grid operators in Ukraine said they were lifting scheduled power supply cuts, which the national power grid operator Ukrenergo had announced previously for one or two categories of consumers simultaneously to be applied from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Tuesday.

Ukrainian media reported after monitoring official accounts of regional power grid operators that the Volyn, Rovno, Lvov, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankovsk, and Ternopol regional grid operators lifted power supply restriction schedules starting 7:00 a.m. until further notice, with the exception for several communities in the Chortkiv district in the Ternopol region, where some restrictions were still in effect due to transmission capacity limitations. Scheduled power supply cuts had also been lifted in those areas on Monday.

None of the other regional grid operators have announced any changes to their outage schedules.

As reported, Ukrenergo ordered on Monday evening that scheduled outages be applied nationwide from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Tuesday, with one category of consumes to be cut off from power supply from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m., from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and from 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., and two categories during the other time slots.

A statement posted on the website of the DTEK Odessa Grids says that emergency outages have been applied in the city of Odessa and the region since the morning of November 17. Power supply problems are particularly serious in the regional center, it said.