Information on receiving and providing emergency assistance with electricity

Information on receiving by the energy system of Ukraine of technical assistance with electricity from the EU countries. There is also information about cases when emergency assistance was provided by Ukraine.

Emergency assistance is an urgent supply of electricity from another country at the request of the system operator if internal reserves and means to avoid simultaneous shutdown of a large number of consumers have already been exhausted. It differs from imports in that it is an emergency measure to overcome an emergency situation and the need for it cannot be predicted in advance.

Ukraine has signed an agreement on multilateral emergency assistance with 15 system operators of the European energy association ENTSO-E. It allows Ukrenergo to seek help in unforeseen situations, such as Russian attacks on the company's energy infrastructure.