Starting next week, the exchange of incandescent lamps for LED lamps will be available at Ukrposhta offices in regional centers. This was reported on the website of the postal operator..

" By the end of February, thanks to the mobile offices of Ukrposhta, the lamps should also reach the smallest villages across the country to light up the home of every Ukrainian. Thus, at the first stage, citizens of Ukraine will be able to exchange up to 20 million lamps in the next month and a half,"

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Just a week after the start of the all-Ukrainian program, the purpose of which is to reduce the load on the energy system by replacing incandescent lamps with energy-saving LED lamps, Ukrainians have already exchanged the first million lamps. That is how many new energy-saving lamps were issued in Ukrposhta branches from January 31 to February 3.

The program started from regional centers and large cities of our country, where the first 4 million. lamps. In particular, the people of Kiev exchanged more than 162 thousand. lamps, Kharkiv residents - more than 80 thousand. , Dnipro - 88 thousand. , Lviv residents - 69 thousand.

“The statistics that we see are mainly people who came to Ukrposhta branches without prior registration. Of course, over the course of the week, there were more people who wanted to exchange lamps:

those who registered with Diia only started receiving confirmation for the exchange since Wednesday, some have already managed to come to the office, and some will receive lamps next week,” commented Igor Smelyansky, General Director of Ukrposhta.

Recall that since the Russian Federation began shelling Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities, Ukraine has been experiencing a shortage of generation and distribution of electricity.. To maintain energy efficiency and balance power consumption during peak hours, the government has developed a program to exchange incandescent lamps for LED lamps.