Lights turn on in outage-ridden districts of Simferopol
24 March 2014, 06:31 -- The supply of electricity has been restored to the outage-ridden districts of Simferopol, to the Kievsky District of the administrative center of the Republic of Crimea and to the Old City. The outages lasted more than four hours.
Earlier on Monday, Rustam Temirgaliyev, First Vice-Premir of the Republic of Crimea, said Ukraine had cut down by 50 percent the amount of electric power being supplied to Crimea.
Temirgaliyev said the Republic is linked with Ukraine by three high-voltage power transmission lines (LEP-330). 'The Ukrainian supplier company UkrEnergo has halved the amount of electric power being supplied via these LEP lines. The Peninsula currently receives 50 percent of the planned amount of electric power,' he explained.
Following the power cutdown, the Crimea Power Systems' Company, in accordance with the rules of procedure, carried out a routine rolling cutoffs in the supply of electricity to facilities on the Peninsula.
Temirgaliyev said Crimea had been ready for such a step of Kiev and promptly reacted to the decline in power supply.
Ukraine cuts volume of electricity supplies to Crimea by 50% - official
The Ukraine has cut the volume of electricity supplies to the Crimea by 50%, Crimean First Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Temirgaliyev said. After the power reduction, The Crimean Electric Power System carried out scheduled rolling blackouts in keeping with rules of procedure. According to Temirgaliyev, at present about 30% of the Crimean territory is off-the-line and there's more to come. If the whole peninsula is deenergised the situation will be even more difficult, he added.
Head of the Russian Ministry of Regional Development Igor Sluniayev said earlier that the Crimea depends on electricity imports by 80%. He expressed confidence that the Ukrainian government will not go as far as triggering off a humanitarian crisis and there will not be any isolation of the Crimea from vital resources.
Electricity outage affects several districts in Crimean capital
An electricity outage affected several districts in Simferopol, the capital of Crimea Sunday night, officials at the Krymenergo power utility said.
"We don't have full information at the moment because data continues coming in but outages have occurred not only in Simferopol but also in other parts of Crimea," Krymenergo spokeswoman Viktoria Lapshina said, adding that the causes of the outage were not clear at the moment.
Electricity supplies were normal in the downtown part of Simferopol, an Itar-Tass correspondent said in an eyewitness account, but a number of other districts - the Old City, Moskalets, and Kiyevsky - were blacked out practically in full, with the only light coming from headlights of cars moving along the streets. Also, one could see candlelight in the windows of residential apartments here and there.
Voice of Russia, Kryminform, RIA, TASS
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