Summer Blackouts Are Back in Ukraine, Because the Sun Dared to Set
Just when everyone assumed power cuts were strictly a winter sport, the summer heatwave and damaged substations joined forces.
Energy grid reality check: relentless Russian strikes never actually stopped, and now intense summer heat has pushed domestic electricity demand straight through the roof. The damaged transmission grid simply can't handle everyone turning their air conditioners on at full blast simultaneously.
The solar panels do their heavy lifting during daylight, but the real bottleneck strikes the moment the sun goes down and ACs keep blasting. Because high peak prices across Europe make emergency energy imports painfully expensive right now, regional grid operators have to introduce targeted two-to-four-hour power cut rotations to keep the system intact.
Energy experts warn that repairing battered substations will take years, meaning future weather extremes will keep testing the system long after the shooting stops.
Turns out having power plants run purely on sunlight works wonders — until night falls on a scorching summer evening.
Source: Ukrinform
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