A power unit at the Rostov nuclear power plant had to be shut down on Tuesday because it was malfunctioning. This meant that millions of people in the south of the country were without electricity.
Russia’s Southern Federal District gets its power from the Rostov nuclear power plant. People in Russia’s Krasnodar Territory, Rostov area, Sevastopol, the Black Sea peninsula, and Crimea, which President Vladimir Putin illegally took from Ukraine in 2014, were hit by rolling power outages. Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned energy company, said that one of the four power units at the nuclear plant had to be shut down because of a problem with the turbine generator.
The power plant has been stressed because of the heat wave that has been going through Russia lately. The country’s electricity use went up by 9% in the second week of July compared to the previous week. The European part of Russia and the Urals used the most electricity.
Because there is a lot of demand, industrial energy prices are going up twice as fast in the south as they are in the rest of the country.
Power went out in many parts of Ukraine earlier this month after a barrage of Ukrainian drones hit the Kursk, Belgorod, and Bryansk areas. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, they have taken out more than half of the country’s power plants. In seven regions of Ukraine, the power went out because equipment failed at one of the power facilities, Ukrenergo, the company that runs the power grid.
Ukraine’s troops left the village of Krînkî in the Herson region on the 875th day of the war. They had taken over the town in October. They have hit 11 different parts of the front in the last 24 hours. The fighting has been the worst in the Pokrovsk and Kurahove areas.
