A disruption in supply of electric energy from Ukraine can increase Russian construction of the power bridge to the Crimea Peninsula, the Ukrainian energy sector faces a rapid loss of market, which since the beginning of this year brought them almost 12 million dollars.
The head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov said that the incident created the enhances the probability of bringing To the fact that "economic agents of Ukraine "will" lose forever " the Peninsula As a market for electrical energy. After all, now there is a laying of the energy bridge from the Krasnodar region across the bottom of Kerch Strait, emphasizes Kommersant.
on the last working day of the week by energy Minister Alexander Novak said that the Russian Federation is ready to launch the 1st phase of power bridge with a capacity of up to 400 MW even before the New year. By 2016, capacity is expected to rise to 800 MW. At the same time the Ministry of energy plans include the construction By 2018 940 MW of new generating four large blocks, there is also supported by the Ministry of industry and trade project "Rostec" on the construction of them instead of the smaller blocks. Implementation of all these ideas by 45% to exceed the maximum demand of the Crimea into electrical energy. The head of energy development Fund Sergey Pikin believes that next year, when the Crimea will be possible to obtain 800 Megawatts for the energy bridge, the Peninsula will become much freer in the choice of where to purchase electricity. According to his vision, current problems can be solved only through negotiations with the Ukrainian authorities, who formally don't support a group that does a "blockade" of the Crimea, But not actively oppose her. Co-Chairman of the energy strategies of Ukraine Dmytro Marunych adds that the blowing up of transmission towers occurred in the period when Ukraine buys Russian electricity." But after cooling it will be necessary for Ukraine, because the Ukrainian power will not be able to cover 5 GW at peak consumption in the winter cold, " - emphasizes the expert. As reported by the print edition OPINION, on Sunday, without electricity in the Crimea remained 1, 641 million people, was off nearly five hundred of socially significant objects. Employees of the organization "Ukrenergo" is still not allowed To be undermined within the Kherson region of Ukraine supports power lines, that were used to supply electricity to the Crimea, to restore them. Later in "Ukrenergo" stated that the protesters plan to block access to repairmen To wire a few more days. The head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov has called the attack undermine the utility poles. Before that in the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine stated that all four power transmission towers in the Kherson region destroyed. As a result, the Crimea was left without electricity. Later power supply was not fully restored in the Republic introduced a state of emergency. On-site generation has allowed to provide only a partial supply in some areas of the Crimea, for example in Simferopol. On the Peninsula the algorithm of the power supply of the Peninsula ? imposed schedule outages.

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