{"id":20983,"date":"2022-11-18T11:37:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T11:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/2022\/11\/18\/about-energy-the-enemy-and-economy-in-simple-words\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T06:39:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T06:39:14","slug":"about-energy-the-enemy-and-economy-in-simple-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infolight.ua\/en\/2022\/11\/18\/about-energy-the-enemy-and-economy-in-simple-words\/","title":{"rendered":"About energy, the enemy and economy in simple words;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How does our power system work and what does the enemy hit?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

The first thing we need to know is that the power system generates exactly as much as the entire country consumes<\/strong>. NEITHER A WATT MORE NOR A WATT LESS.<\/p>\n\n

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Nuclear power plants generate the most electricity. This is the cheapest electricity in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n

Their main disadvantage is that you cannot change the volume of generation dramatically<\/strong>. NPPs don’t like it when generation is increased, let alone when it is sharply reduced. It is dangerous for them.<\/p>\n\n

The enemy knows this, so it tries to hit the pain points<\/strong> of the power system to plunge Ukraine into darknes<\/strong>s:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n

(1) Transformer stations <\/strong> near nuclear power plants. Especially 750kV transformers, because they are almost impossible to repair (because only the Russian Federation, Central Asian countries, and Zaporizhzhya Transformer Plant make 750kV transformers).<\/p>\n\n

If a transformer station is destroyed, it will not be able to transfer a LARGE chunk of generation and will go into emergency shutdown<\/strong>. Each emergency shutdown greatly reduces the life of a nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n\n

(2) Key transportation hubs.<\/strong> The network is a “web” where everything is connected.<\/p>\n\n

If several nodal substations are affected at the same time, the system will go into a severe imbalance of areas (where either too much electricity is generated or consumed much more than produced), which will cause the automation to shut down generating capacities or load<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

To prevent an accident from occurring and equipment from being damaged in the event of a power surge or rapid voltage drop, the automation simply shuts everything down.<\/p>\n\n

Thus, Destroying several nodal power plants can trigger a cascading blackout across the country, when everything goes down for a while.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

This is exactly the goal of the gun and it hits these two types of targets!<\/p>\n\n

In just 2 days, about 150 missiles were fired at our energy sector.<\/p>\n\n

Even a dozen missiles that arrived could have caused significant damage to our energy system and caused a blackout of most of the system, which would have to be “raised” for several days.<\/p>\n\n

The leadership and the Armed Forces are actively working to develop a system of defense and infrastructure repair that will allow us to consistently repair faster than they destroy.<\/p>\n\n

However, ordinary citizens should also join in the defense of the Ukrainian energy system<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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