Overview
- Ukrenergo announced there are no planned electricity outages for July 4 and asked households and businesses to save power in the evening hours.
- Operators resumed consumption-limitation measures at the end of June and have used emergency shutdowns in Kyiv and other regions even where planned restrictions were not applied.
- The grid operator says prolonged hot weather has driven round-the-clock use of air conditioners and raised usual electricity demand by about 25 percent.
- Repeated strikes on Ukraine’s generation and transmission since 2022, which intensified in late 2025 and early 2026, have cut available capacity and created a persistent gap between supply and demand.
- The short-term step of asking for voluntary conservation aims to avoid further forced outages but households, hospitals, and businesses remain at risk if demand stays high or new damage forces emergency cuts.