Slightly more than half of Ukrainian citizens do not believe that a power outage has a significant impact on their lives, and Ukrainians mostly positively assess the actions of the authorities to overcome the consequences of shelling of the power industry. This was shown by a survey by the Razumkov Center, which was conducted from December 21, 2022 to January 3, 2023..

According to the results of the survey, for the last three months before the survey:.

73% of respondents had power outages in their homes, as a rule, more than once a day,.

14% - daily,.

7% - several times a week, but not every day,.

1.5% - once a week,.

2% - less than once a week,.

0.5% - once a month,.

1% never or almost never.

When asked how many hours during the last day before the survey there was no electricity supply in their house:.

most often (33.5%) respondents answer that the deliveries were not from 5 to 9 hours,.

26% - that there was no electricity supply from 2 to 4 hours,.

17% - from 10 to 14 hours,.

7% - from 15 to 19 hours,.

2% - from 20 to 21 hours,.

1% - more than 22 hours,.

0.8% - that during the previous day there was no electricity supply,.

4.5% - that there was no electricity from 1 hour (but less than 2 hours),.

1.5% - less than 1 hour,.

6% - that the supply of electricity was all the time during the last day.

When asked how much power outages, both at home and elsewhere, affect their daily lives:.

19% of respondents answer “very strongly influence”,.

24% - "

35% - "

8% - "

4% - "

Most often, this influence is indicated by residents of large (100 thousand. and more residents) of cities (here 49% answered that these shutdowns have a very strong or strong impact on their lives), to a lesser extent - residents of medium and small towns and urban settlements (43%) and villages (36%).

Assessing the actions of the authorities and energy campaigns to eliminate the consequences of Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and restore energy supply on a scale from zero to 10, where “0” means “extremely dissatisfied” and “10” means “very satisfied”, on average, respondents rate. A low level of satisfaction (from 0 to 3 points) is expressed by 14% of respondents, a high level of satisfaction (from 7 to 10 points) is expressed by 55.5% of respondents.

Assessing the fairness and justification of power outages for different consumers (when some are turned off more often and others less often), in the area, locality where they live, on a scale from zero to 10, where " 17% of respondents assess the level of fairness and justification of power outages to different consumers (from 0 to 3 points), 44% of respondents highly (from 7 to 10 points).

Recall that in early December, the Ministry of Economy investigated how power outages affect prices. Estimates diverged from the forecasts of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.