The fall of the power supply system in Kiev can lead to paralysis of all life support systems of the city, this is what actually should be called a blackout, explains the director of the analytical research center \?

The operation of water supply, sewerage, centralized heating depends on a stable power supply. There is no talk of electric transport without electricity, as well as mobile communications and the Internet..

“The specifics of centralized heating and power supply systems in Kiev is that they are united by one technological process - at CHPP-5, CHPP-6 and Darnytska CHPP, electricity and heat are produced simultaneously, so if the generation of current stops, there will be no heat,” –.

To supply heat to homes, there are 19 pumping stations and 2.3 thousand heat points, and all of them operate on electricity..

The city's water and sewer services are also critically dependent on the availability of electricity, as both systems require pumping.. In addition, water is needed for sewage, otherwise the waste products of Kiev will settle and accumulate in sewer pipes..

At different times of the year, the city consumes daily from 700 thousand to 1 million cubic meters of water, which are supplied by two water intake stations.. The artesian water supply system is operating from 376 wells, which has 27 pumping water stations, 32 pumping stations, 111 pump-room complexes and 22 fountains with a total capacity of 100,000 cubic meters per day..

The system of sewer networks with a total length of more than 2.6 thousand km has 37 sewer pumping stations. And all this economy needs electricity.

“In Kyiv, there are about 12.5 thousand apartment buildings and more than 23 thousand individual. Residents of high-rise buildings are absolutely dependent on centralized water supply and sewerage systems, heat and electricity, and this makes them extremely vulnerable in a war,” the author concludes..

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As a reminder, on December 9, DTEK Kyiv Electric Grids introduced updated schedules of stabilization power outages, allowing electricity to be supplied to Kiev residents only four to six hours a day.. They started testing the very next day..

Living in a mode where there is only five or six hours of light a day, the people of Kiev will have to at least until spring, explains the author of ZN. UA Igor Maskalevich. Russian missile strikes damaged the Ukrainian energy system, but the occupiers have still not been able to bring it down.