Solar power plant in the Crimea during the day on Thursday was developed about 135 MW, filling the energy shortage, caused by the failure of thermal generation, said the Minister of fuel and Energy of the Republic Sergey Egorov.

on Wednesday, eventually stopping supply of electric power from Ukraine all the cities and districts of the Peninsula were de-energized. In the end, unexpected blackout due to technical issues stopped Simferopol CHP. In addition to providing energy, Simferopol CHP provides heating in parts of the districts of the city, and among them are social objects. Energy make efforts for an early restart of the plant and restore the normal heat and power facilities.

The installed capacity of Simferopol CHP is about 70 megawatts. Total Installed electric capacity of the CHP plant organization Krimtech is 110 MW. In the structure of the organization consists of Simferopol (the most powerful CHP), Reed-burunskiy heat station (Kerch) and Saki CHP. The last two stations continue to operate.

" at the present time the sun went down (for the clouds), an hour or two ago I was told that the amount of generation from solar plants amounted to 135 MW, " said Egorov.

The generation of energy solar stations depends on the height of the sun above the horizon, the length of day and weather conditions. On Thursday in the Crimea, they forecast partly cloudy weather, in the afternoon the air temperature was up to the mark plus eleven.

in Crimea there are four Solar power plants in the villages of spring, Okhotnikov, Mitino and Perovo. The largest of them, and one of the largest in the world, is a power plant in Perovo a total capacity of 105, 56 MW, consisting of 440 thousand crystalline photovoltaic modules installed on the area of over 200 hectares

After sunset, in the evening hours of maximum electricity consumption of Crimea will remain with weregenerally, as well as with electricity generation Sevastopol CHP, Reed-burunskiy heat station (Kerch) and Saki CHP, said the Minister.

in addition to them to reduce electricity shortages will include all mobile gas turbine power station. The use of graphics emergency outages (blackouts regions) remains very probable, because our Generation is not restored because of the downtime Simferopol CHP.

The energy consumption of the Crimea in the period range of 1000-1200 MW. Ukraine in the morning and evening restricts the flow of up to 400 MW.

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